What's In a Catgirl's Name?
While looking through some mythology websites, I stumbled upon some interesting notes.It seems that Tia, the name of the Wilde Home's resident dragongirl as you all know, is a death god for the Haida...
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I knew of Tiamat the evil dragon which power is the equal to Bauhamut the good dragon.
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Interesting, considering in Ancient Sumerian, Tiamat was the maiden of life, closely associated with Ninti, the lady of life.
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Specifically, Tiamat is a primeval goddess in Babylonian and Sumerian mythology, and a central figure in the Enma Elish creation epic. John C. L. Gibson, in the Ugaritic glossary of Canaanite Myths...
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Yeah, I kinda figured that's where they got Phaedra's name from.
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Don't you just love mythology. My own kowledge is best on Classical mythology, and I studied that particular myth about Phaedra - it's in 'Hippolytus' by Euripides (A very fine tragedy that I...
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Yahoo search #14 for the name Phaedra.Phaedra - Wilde Home Age: 18. Blood Type: O. Admitted: April '02. Headmistress' Notes: ... I still don't know how Victoria managed to talk Phaedra into dressing...
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Tia was specifically named with Tiamat in mind. Phaedra is a cool name, and I believe that Bridget and I both knew girls named Phaedra. Where a name has symbolic connotations, it is usually deliberate...
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You mean like Esmeralda the witch, Morgan the pirate or Nurse Florence as in Nightingale?
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Exactamundo. Subtlety isn't always our strong suit.Well, except for Esmerelda... I guess you could say that was serendipitous...The DisciplinarianThose who beat their swords into ploughshares will...
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I think she should make a mermaid or catgirl named Tourbillon(prefferabley mermaid) whos parents named her such because of the ordeal they had when she was born but she lives up to her name or maybe I...
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Great picture!! However, there are already three mermaids at the Wilde Home, Miranda, Helen and Umbriel. It's amazing that with all those catgirls, none of those three has ended up on a platter yet.
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well Sergeant I think their should be more mermaids maybe she can have a new school or such develop across the way like the bunny girl finishing school .... I like mermaids almost as much as I like...
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I assume there's a school for mermaids underwater, seeing as how Miranda & co. are all 18 or over.
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Dirty little secret: I never knew any of the history or meaning of the name Phaedra, nor have I ever known anyone named Phaedra. I don't recall where I heard the name, but it was a looooooong time...
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Wierd...Phaedra means 'light' but you didn't know it, and yet it became her name anyway...dang....
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Here's what I know about Tiamat and Bahamut which sadly enough came from video game and RPG books like D&D and such... JK I love em both. I can't get enough RPGs. LOLBahamut was the holy dragon...
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To the Sumerians, Tiamat was the maid of life, as Ninti was the lady of life. Of course, under later civilizations, like the Chaldeans, Akkadians, Assyrians and so on, both Tiamat and Ninti would...
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Just to let you know, there IS a Bahamut which appears in Assyro-Babylonian myths, but not as a dragon. Instead, it's a giant fish that supports the bull Kjata, which in turn has a rock of ruby on its...
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Let's just hope none of the catgirls ever refers to one of the resident mermaids as "dinner".
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