This May Only Interest Me...
I do all sorts of random - and oft-pointless - research for the Ancient!John 'verse. Today's web-surfing discovered this factioid from Ancestory.com:
And, just because I didn't get enough kicks out of McKay and McCoy being essentially the same name (you know you're a SyFy fan when...), I went and looked up Aodh on wikipedia. It's article states:
Granted, all of this probably has no real meaning as far as anything is really concerned, but I find it interesting. Particularly as fire, the element, is historically associated with energy, assertiveness, and passion. You also have the whole Promethus stealing fire from the gods thing, and when associated with it's related astrological symbols, you get people who are supposed to be hot-tempered, uncontrollable, and snappish, amongst other things.
Again, this probably has no real meaning and is nothing but a happy coincidence, but I'm tired enough to find it interesting at the moment.
McKay Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodha ‘son of Aodh’, an ancient personal name meaning ‘fire’. Etymologically, this is the same name as McCoy.
And, just because I didn't get enough kicks out of McKay and McCoy being essentially the same name (you know you're a SyFy fan when...), I went and looked up Aodh on wikipedia. It's article states:
Aodh ( /ˈeɪ/), or Áed, is an Irish word of Indo-European origin, equivalent to fire in English. [...] An Anglicised form of Aedán is Aidan.And this is obviously interesting as Ford's first name in SGA is Aiden, which he chose because it's one of Joe's RL kid's names.
Granted, all of this probably has no real meaning as far as anything is really concerned, but I find it interesting. Particularly as fire, the element, is historically associated with energy, assertiveness, and passion. You also have the whole Promethus stealing fire from the gods thing, and when associated with it's related astrological symbols, you get people who are supposed to be hot-tempered, uncontrollable, and snappish, amongst other things.
Again, this probably has no real meaning and is nothing but a happy coincidence, but I'm tired enough to find it interesting at the moment.
Awww, that's adorable!
But I'm too tired to research it now, so... I'll have to look into it in the morning.
It's prob not that simple, but...
Then again, I've not the slightest idea why someone would name their kid "Kavan" in the first place.
It's the made-up sounding ones that I don't get.
Technically, wasn't every name randomly made up at one point?
I suppose.
But take the name John. It's derived from the Latin Iohannes, which is derived from the Greek Iōánnēs, which is a modification of the Hebrew name Yôḥanan, which means "Graced by Yahweh." That opens the door to all the intreptations of the word Yahweh and it's potential meanings to different folks.
Then you get the associated names and feelings about that particulr name unrelated to it's original meaning. You have the obvious, John the Baptist, which gives us whole stand up against the rules of an unjust ruler connotations, as well as head on a platter You have a couple Kings (including the King John of Robin Hood and Johnny Cash, the man in black himself....
And well, names like "Kavan" don't have that kind of history. Or meaning. Which I think is sad.
God, trying to answer email in the "family computer room" is insane.
I've always thought so :P I shared the idea of a Mafia AU in the fic prompt post for the Atlantis Big Bang last year, but no takers :P
God, trying to answer email in the "family computer room" is insane.
D: I'm sorry
and I'd say more, but again I'm in the "family computer room" and halfway through reading your post I was interogated about my finaces again. Nevermind mom woke me up in the middle of the night to do it last night. God.
But I will be home this afternoon. things will be better. the boys in fedoras will be able to be considered in all their hotness.