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Saijen SilverWolf
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Why?
I thought I would post this here since many of the names we use are Pagan or somehow related. So, my question is....
How did you come by the name you use here? What significance does it have?
For me, I've stated elsewhere that my name was actually given to me by my Spirit Guide, Kiya. I found out about a year ago, that my deceased maternal grandmother sent Kiya to me to help me find the path I am now on. There is a deep side of me that dwells in the Native American side of things, that I am still working on learning. I need to re-try to get my info together to join a clan (it's not a tribe) that is based in this state. It's called a clan because the people that make up the clan are from various Native American tribes, but are not a part of a tribe. It's more for those of us who are not full blooded. I've not worked on this in a while.
I found out during a Samhain meditation in 2007 that my grandmother was actually the one that sent Kiya to me and why. Kiya came to me in 2003, in the Spring, I think it was. I just remember it wasn't really hot or cold. My DH and I had been about to leave the office building we cleaned every weekend when I heared, very plainly, someone yelling "Don't leave me here!!!!". I asked DH if he heard it and he said he'd heard something. So, I just told whomever, if they didn't want to stay, they'd best get a move on before we set the alarm and closed the door. We were headed to get some supper, and all the way all I could hear in my head were things like "What is this that we are in?" --'It's called a truck'. "Well, are all these called trucks?" -- 'No, the small ones are cars, that one is a motorcycle.' "What is the really big one?" -- 'That is called a semi or a tractor-trailer.' We got to the restaurant..it was a mexican place. "What is this?" -- 'A place to eat where they cook and we pay them.' "What are those up there?" -- 'They are called light bulbs and those are clorored ones to make it pretty in here.' That's all I heard for a while. On the way home it was quiet and I thought I'd lost my companion. Keep in mind that all of this conversation took place in my head. None was spoken out loud. Later that night, my companion came to me again. She was with me then for almost 3 years. She left me in 2006. She gave me 2 words in her Native tongue but refused to tell me what they meant...I had to find out on my own. The only problem was, almost everyone in her Nation was wiped out, what few were left after the massacre that had killed her went to neighboring Nations that took them in and made them their own. Kiya was 66 yrs old when she was murdered in 1866. She was of a Plains Tribe...but which one I have no idea. So, began my search of the 2 words. I have talked to linguistics people of over 4 Native American Nations. I finally got that the first word...and the spelling is probably not right, was Y'ohtehay...which is the closest to the Navajo's Hello. The other word, Ochiniwah I discovered, was closest to meaning of another Nation's 'Man of the South' or 'Man from the South'. I still have no idea why those words and why I had to do the digging to find the meanings. Kiya's name came closest to the, if I recall correctly, Sioux meaning for warrior. Many of the tribes pronounced it Gaya, Giya, Geeya, or some form. I have it all written down somewhere in a notebook.
The significance of my name...The first part..Saijen, is a take off of Sage One. Mage, etc. It is a combination of Kiya's tribal words and the magical place that she and my grandmother were apparently a part of in life. I have to wonder if my grandmother knew Kiya in life as well. My grandfather worked on the railways, and he my grandmother used to live in an old train car. It wasn't unusual to see Native Americans around the area where they lived. One time, 2 drunken Native Americans broke into the car when my grandmother was there alone. She managed to get them out without anyone getting hurt. She was a spitfire, to say the least. So, I have to wonder if she and Kiya knew each other in life. This was all before my mother was born, so Mom wouldn't know.
The last part, since it is the rest of my magical name as well, we'll just say that it speaks to my inner being and my Element and the fact that music plays a large part in my life...be in me playing, listening to recorded music or someone else playing live.
I've not figured out why Saijen. I sure don't feel intelligent or wise enough to be given that name unless it's a means to an end...a PUSH, if you will, to become that intelligent and wise.
I use Saijen SilverWolf here because I have a silver wolf. The wolf is one of my totem animals.
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muladzh
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That is very interesting - We keep our 'spiritual' names to ourselves, so I use my own, on this forum.
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12/11/2008, 9:55 am
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Saijen SilverWolf
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muladzh, I think you misunderstood what I was asking. I'm not asking for your magical names....but the names you use here on the board.
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Well, I wish I had chosen differently, to tell you the truth. I chose 'madness' as my user name on the very first forum I ever joined - Homesteading Today. Madness was a nickname given to me in the 7th grade. It was during an English class where the teacher asked if anybody knew the definition of a particular word. I can't even remember the word now, but it meant madness so I said so. The teacher turned to me and said "say it like you mean it!" So I said "MADNESS"! And well, you know how kids are. Everyone called me Madness. A lot of parents called me Magnus because they were trying to make sense of what their kids called me.  I still have a few friends from that era that call me Madness.
When I joined here, I had no idea this would become like a second home to me. The username 'madness' was already taken so I just stuck Texas (where I'm from!) on the front. Not the most poetic name, but hey, I'm used to it now! When I was in art school (in Georgia), folks called me Texas, so it seems kinda normal to see it here too!
I don't know what I would pick if I had known that people would really know me by my username on this forum. Probably just my real name - Marissa. Hmmm, I'm not sure.
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Firlefanz
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The story of my screenname is funny. 
When I first signed up for Runboard, I knew nothing about forums and very little about the internet. All I knew was a warning, never to use your real name.
So I sat there, thinking hard. What could I name myself? At that time, I was writing a fantasy novel, and my heroine's horse was called "Firlefanz". That's a real German word, meaning fluff or irrelevant decoration. That's actually a joke from the story, because she's riding a piebald gelding, and piebalds were ridiculed in the middle ages.
Anyway, I thought that joining a forum was also maybe not a good idea, and Firlefanz wasn't taken, either. So I chose it. And somehow, it grew into my internet name (in many places, at any rate, not all of them), and I got the best nickname of my life from it: Firle.
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This is a bit complicated because there are actually a bunch of things going on at the same time...
The name I normally use is B. de Corbin (runboard won't let me use a "." so I shortened it).
I normally tell people that "B." stands for "Bill," which is a bit of a joke on my part. The "B." actually stands for "Bec."
"Bec de Corbin" is old Anglo-Saxon for "Beak of the Crow." So – Bill = Beak... a bird joke. Get it? (OK, it's not funny, I know, but I’m very easily amused)
So, anyway, I am the Beak of the Crow. But what the heck is that?
Bec de Corbin is the name used in medieval/renaissance times for a particular weapon. The weapon is a long pole (6-8 feet), with a spear-like blade on the end, and a curved pick-like spike sticking out just below the spear blade. The curved spike looks exactly like a crow's beak (this is also where the term "crow bar" comes from).
Since one of my favorite pass times is learning to use ancient weapons, and since the Bec de Corbin is one of may favorites, I picked that name.
Sort of...
But also...
One of my two totem animals is the crow.
In many mythologies, crows are the messengers that run between this world and the spirit world (or between humans and the Gods, or, for Carl Jung, between the conscious and unconscious mind, or between the world of the imagination and the world of real things). This is the same role that Hermes plays in Greek Mythology.
In Alchemy, the Crow (which is also equated with Hermes) represents the impulse to do, to think, to create – before it becomes the impulse to do, think, or create a specific thing – you could call it “inspiration,” which is also a way of thinking of the “message” that the messenger crow brings from the other world.
Sooooo… the “Beak of the Crow” - the mouth - is the part that delivers the message. This is a reference to the way I think of art. The artist (myself) is the one who brings things out of the Spirit World/Land of the Gods/Unconscious/World of the Imagination, gives it a physical form, and delivers it to people.
That’s me, B. de Corbin!
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I would love to type that my name was a complex joke love yours Bec De Corbin, or magical, even inspired by a novel.
Mine is very simple I am and will always be a playful, annoying at times, flirt of a person.
The tree is a shorten version of my real name Theresa given to me back in high school because friend use to say they could count on me to be there like an old tree on a hot summer day.
Therefore playfultree, and always lower case because I am after all just me.
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Saijen SilverWolf
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I am loving all the stories behind the names here!! and playful, dear, you are a lot more than 'just you' hon. YOU are YOU! Capital letters!!! Don't think less of yourself than you truly are!
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Some interesting replies here
I am simply and forever curious, hence my name 
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tickranch is the name I gave my homestead.
When we first bought it the ticks were REALLY, REALLY, I mean REALLY bad. Seed ticks would swarm up your legs, others would drop from the trees by the hundreds.
I hate to admit it but we applied a chemical pesticide around the perimeter of our house when we first moved here, just so we could walk outside and not be attacked. It worked well and then we did a lot of clean up work, dead leaves and brush, that helped even more. The next spring I got chickens and a few guineas and the tick numbers have dropped dramatically.
The ticks are still abundant in our woods and we have what we call a tick jar, it's an old jelly jar filled about a third full with rubbing alcohol, we keep some tweezers with it. I have to de-tick my dogs every night, even in the winter although there are not nearly as many then as there is in the spring.
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p.s. tickranch - always lowercase - is my user name on everything I do on the internet.
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