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Date Posted: 14:02:13 05/11/10 Tue
Author: Paige2
Subject: Re: Testing out 1st Post
In reply to: Promise 's message, "Re: Testing out 1st Post" on 09:24:43 05/11/10 Tue

Thank you Promise. Glad it intrigued.

For me, the naming of my character�s was just like naming my own children. I wanted just the right names to represent them and who they were. So with Arianwen/Arienh, I started with who she was named after: Arianrhod � A Cymric Goddess. She was the Goddess of the Silver Wheel, and her name in Welsh meant Silver (arian) wheel (rhod). She was considered the goddess of death, rebirth, childbirth, and bardic knowledge. Goddess of the Otherworld tower of Initiation, (Caer Sidi), where each bard went to learn the great wisdom, (understanding) and where the dead go between their incarnations. She is the Goddess of childbirth, the moon, fertility, and fate. Her home is Caer Arianrhod, where the spirits of the dead souls go to await reincarnation, ferried there by Rhwyfrod, the spectral ship known as �oar-wheel�. She has become associated with both the spider, the wheel of life, and the wheel of the year.

Based off that, I found the name Arianwen = (ah-ree-AHN-wen), From the Welsh word arian which means silver and (g)wen meaning white, fair, blessed, shining, holy. It�s was used quite frequently from the 5 to 11th centuries.

From there I went to the present. I wanted something similar to her past name (Arianwen), so that the men could still call her by her old nickname (Ari). After googling for Welsh/Celtic baby female names. I saw the name Arienh. How perfect huh?

The name Arienh is a baby girl name and comes from Celtic origin. Its Celtic�s meaning: Oath. The Pronunciation: AR-ee-en - ['ɑrjɑn]

This was probably more than you wanted to know but I do hope it was interesting and gave you some insight to my main character. The men�s names were picked for meaning and how I mentally saw them in the past and present.

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[> [> [> [> Re: Testing out 1st Post -- Promise, 19:02:54 05/11/10 Tue

Thank you! That was very interesting. I have always found the meaning of names to be of interest. I was sure you had selected the names with care. Since your modern character has a Celtic name, I'm guessing she is of a Welsh family?

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: Testing out 1st Post -- Paige2, 19:17:42 05/11/10 Tue

Yes she is (in my mind). The whole story pretty much takes place in Wales. Arienh grew up in an orphanage and this story doesn't talk much about her current life - there is some - but not alot.

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