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Help[Opinions] Re: Zeus, Jupiter, Odin, or Horus
in reply to a message by Manipura
Oscar Odin and Dana Freya
Although I'm an Empire gal, and named after one of their goddesses, tbh I am a little suspicious of their pantheon. Zeus, Jupiter, Hera, Juno don't strike me as characters I'd care to invoke directly in my kid's name.
I'm not generally into names of foreign gods... to me, ones that aren't frequently used for people seem a little goofy, almost in the same category as Kal-El, Anakin, and Jagger.
Hathor and Horus sound stern, and would feel forced to me as names for people. I feel like they'd have that "don't really know all about what it signifies" vibe that many culturally borrowed names do for me. Odin and Freya do, too, but they seem pretty enough, in what I think of as the conventions around me, that they'd be usable for me.
- mirfak
Although I'm an Empire gal, and named after one of their goddesses, tbh I am a little suspicious of their pantheon. Zeus, Jupiter, Hera, Juno don't strike me as characters I'd care to invoke directly in my kid's name.
I'm not generally into names of foreign gods... to me, ones that aren't frequently used for people seem a little goofy, almost in the same category as Kal-El, Anakin, and Jagger.
Hathor and Horus sound stern, and would feel forced to me as names for people. I feel like they'd have that "don't really know all about what it signifies" vibe that many culturally borrowed names do for me. Odin and Freya do, too, but they seem pretty enough, in what I think of as the conventions around me, that they'd be usable for me.
- mirfak
This message was edited 3/16/2023, 12:22 PM
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