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 Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:14 pm
A NAME
Our coven shouldn't just be referred to as that. We need a name. We are a group of equals, so everyone should be involved in all decision-making processes that affect the coven. That includes our name.
I think the best way to start getting a name would be to brainstorm words that describe us, our purpose, and what we hold dear. Take inspiration from stories, music, art, and other languages so we can find a fitting name.
If we all just start listing things that come quickly to mind, we can edit each others' lists and get closer and closer to something we like. Anything for lists will do. Quotes, lines, sentences, single words - ANYTHING will do to get our creative juices flowing.
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:44 pm
All I can think of at the moment is that Panzermensch in German means tank like person.
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:01 pm
A real tank would be interesting. We would be VERY well-armed vampires. rofl
I'm not the only one seeing this, right?
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:04 pm
We would be XD
Well, Tramfrau means perfect woman.Guys could just get a sex change XD
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:18 pm
I know, it doesn't make sense... What about "Nightfall's Family"? ...Not much does anymore...
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:25 pm
Hmmm.....How about Dämmerung der Nacht ((Meaning dawn of Night)) or Dunkelwerden (means Nightfall).
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:56 am
I dont really think anything in another language would be good, seeing as gaia is made up of people from different places.
Search the dictionaries....there must be something good in english...
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:59 am
words describing a vampire:
kinship
gore
red fluids
fiend
night(fall)
fang
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:21 pm
Those are interesting thoughts so far. We can also use a combination. Maybe both English and another language if we are split about that topic, punkhime. 3nodding
I thought just to get a huge list of words out there, I'd look through my Art History textbook. The rest of this post is just going to be words and definitions from the glossary of things I thought were fitting visually or interesting verbally. We can use them to just think of more stuff. So here goes:
acropolis = Greek, "high city," usually the site of the city's most important temple(s)
amulet = an object worn to ward off evil or to aid the wearer
apadana = the great audience hall in ancient Persian palaces
Archaic smile = in Archaic Greek sculpture, the smile sculptors represented on faces as a way of indicating that the person portrayed is alive
ascetism = self-discipline and self-denial
avant-garde = French, "advance guard" (in a platoon), late 19th- and 20th-century artists who emphasized innovation and challenged established convention in their work, also used as an adjective.
bhakti = in Buddhist thought, the adoration of a personalized deity (bodhisattva) as a means of achieving unity with it; love felt by the devotee for the deity. In Hinduism, the devout, selfless direction of all tasks and activities of life to the service of one god.
brocade = the weaving together of threads of different colors
haniwa = sculpted fired pottery cylinders, modeled in human, animal, or other forms and placed around early Japanese burial grounds
imagines = in ancient Rome, wax portraits of ancestors
ka = in ancient Egypt, the immortal human life source
karma = in Vedic religions, the ethical consequences of a person's life, which determine his or her fate
katsina = an art form of Native Americans of the Southwest, the katsina doll represents benevolent supernatural spirits (katsinas) living in mountains and water sources
lamassu = Assyrian guardian in the form of a man-headed winged bull
mandala = sacred diagram of the universe
necropolis = Greek, "city of the dead," a large burial area or cemetary
nimbus = a halo or aureole appearing around the head of a holy figure to signify divinity
sabi = the value found in the old and weathered, suggesting the tranquility reached in old age
sarcophagus = Latin, "consumer of flesh," a coffin, usually of stone
vanitas = a term describing paintings (particularly 17th-century Dutch still lifes) that include references to death
votive offering = a gift of gratitude to a diety
votive statues = generalized male and female sculptures placed in a temple to pray on behalf of the donor
I'm not the only one seeing this, right?
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:53 pm
*Throws one more word into the mix*
Isra: "nocturnal journey", derived from Arabic سرى (sara) "to travel at night".
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Aylin Lily Pendragon Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:55 pm
»» Wow, you're such a walking dictionary Panda...
I like Archaic Smile a lot, avant-garde as a part of a full name, and still the votive idea.
Necropolis or Acropolis could be the name of our mainforum, I think, with something like Catacombs as subforum? ««
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:38 pm
Tamati »»
Necropolis or Acropolis could be the name of our mainforum, I think, with something like Catacombs as subforum? «« I love that idea...sounds like a real vampiric forum. Imagines is the smame in spanish... 'Imagines of Ka', or you could go spanish... 'Imagines de Ka'. which would mean 'images of immortal human life source'...... dont know...that just sounds good to me....
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:47 pm
Lol, I am not really a dictionary. I just copied from my textbook. I just know where to get the information from. 3nodding
And any of those words can be mixed up to form a name. That was what I intended from the list.
What I think is that after a certain amount of time for brainstorming, we should have a nomination period. Each person who wants to can nominate a name for the poll. That will at least keep all these ideas under control so I don't have 50 options in the poll. sweatdrop
After we give time for nominations I will set up a poll with all the nominated names. We set a time limit for voting and then we take the winner and that is our name. Sound good?
The other option is to use a thread instead where people post their first, second, and third choices. I will then tally them by hand and whichever gets the most votes will win. That way, if people want more than one choice, it makes it easier on them.
You tell me. 3nodding
I'm not the only one seeing this, right?
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:50 am
My insides all turn to {{ash}},
So slow
~^~
So far,
I find myself agreeing with Tamati's idea.
I like Archaic Smile, as well.
But, then, I also like 'Ka'.
Ka is short, simple, but to the point in it's meaning.
~^~
And blew away as I collapse,
So {{cold}}
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:49 am
»» I like the idea with the three choices, I would also help tallying the results if you wanted me to, Panda...
I also changed the forum names for now as you might've seen.
Mhhhh... as for Ka.... we could try and think of a name that has the initials K and A, so we'd have for once the meaning of Ka and also another? Just throwing that in here. ««
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