This is wonderful! :laughing6: I love stories, and everybody has one, and this sure proves it! My dragon's names? Myths, mists and math, O.K., here goes!
Fibonacci is my first dragon, just over four years old now. I knew he would tell me, and the household is very involved with mathematics and teaching, and the patterns on patterns on patterns as I looked at him, Fibonacci, the mathematician discovered the number sequence of the spirals in nature. Fib said, "yeah, that's real good!" and so he is!
Kang was almost Tang, SO yellow, but he is also a serious cling-on, and Kang was one of the Klingons from StarTrek, so he is Kang, the Cling-on.
Nefertiti looked at me, and relayed the circumstances of her regal birth, and I knew Nef was the beautiful God-Queen of the Nile.
Diver, well, try to hold on to him any length of time, and he will attempt a skydive!
Not really myths or math, but a legend in his own mind!
Galileo and Gaia are my Sundial siblings. Wtih a sundial as my guide, I went back to the mathematician and the Goddess of the Earth, and Galileo does have some similarities in personality to Fib. Guess it's the mathematic mind at work!
Hob came to me as a wounded baby 5 1/2 inches long, missing her left hand, but with a great spirit. She grew an inch a week in her first month with me, and had to have extra calcium because she was growing SO fast. She then revealed that she, too was a Queen of the Nile, the greatest, who dared to become one of Egypt's greatest Pharoahs. Her jealous successors tried to obliterate her from memory, along with the fact that a woman was the god-king, but her story is finally coming to light. She has perservered! :notworthy:
Galadriel, the Lady of the Light from the Lord of the Rings, was severely neglected when I got her but there was a glow about her, and her former name had been Lightning. She had been very fast once, but could barely walk when I got her, so a fresh start with a name that showed her inner spirit was critical.
Astarte was almost Isis, back to Egyptian myths and history, but in looking into the history of Isis, it seems she was a later, Greek-influenced adaptation of the old Goddess, Astarte, an ancient goddess of fertility, war, peace, wisdom and many other things. Again, as Gaia, a mother-goddess. As I was informed after I bought her that she might be gravid, it seemed appropriate and I have been amazed and delighted by her babies. Her old name was Pumpkin, but she is a much brighter yellow than the pumpkins we grow.
Seshat was named Eragon by her previous owners, but I did not know that story yet, and I liked Seshat, She who Scribes, the Egyptian Goddess of Writing and Measurement, and the patron of mathematics. She likes it, too. Her tank is in the corner, surrounded by math books!
When Thoth arrived, he looked like he could be a sibling of Seshat, and Thoth was the male counterpart to Seshat in Egyptian Mythology, scribe, mathematician and scientist, also the heart and voice of Ra, and the judge of the dead. The people I got him from didn't seem to think of him as an indidvidual, and didn't tell me what they had called him. They didn't know what power he has!
Out of Astarte's 30 babies, Uno and Dos, Monet and Tweezie have names. Uno, 1, Dos, 2, as they hatched, but I think they are both staying, and the names may evolve. Monet takes turn with one of the others in being the largest, (6 3/4 inches at four weeks old :shock: ) but I believe she is female, and in the right light, she appears to have been painted with the impressionist brush. Tweezie is the late egg, an enormous egg, hatched a week after her clutchmates, smaller than any of her siblings but feisty, (oh, boy! Watch out for Tweezie! She'll get you! :laughhard: ) and enough yolk still in the egg for another baby. She also had a gash on the back of her head, and a spot on her tail that looks like it was cut out and a piece of a different dragon inserted. When the clutch went to the vets, the conclusion is that she is twins that started to develop, but never separated, the second twin being reabsorbed into her. Twins, two dragons in one, not developed like Zak-n-Wheezie, just one, so Tweezie!
That should be enough for now! I can't believe how many dragons I've ended up with! While Math and Mythology have been my major influences, I may also draw on Stargate and Pirates, or other Johnny Depp-related characters for future names. Most of it really depends on the dragon, though! :love5: :love10: :love5: :love10: :love5:
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