Beyond the Violet Mist: naming

Sunday, October 18, 2015

naming

Naming

It's nearly NaNoWriMo again, as the notification e-mails keep reminding me, and so I've been formulating my plan for this November. I've decided to return to and revamp my old "Indian Rock" series, this time as "Painted Rock", and instead of being 1/4 Mexican, I've decided that my main character, who I named "Abigail Riitiré" back in the Olden Days of Elementary School, will be part (or all?) Native American instead, in keeping with the "Painted Rock" concept of things. Thus, I have been seeking a good Native American name for her. It's surprisingly hard to find good Native American names on the internet. I mean, there are some, but there's not a super-great variety. And, anyways, in the course of my research, I came here: http://www.native-languages.org/baby. Interestingly, one of the names I had been considering for good old Abi, Aiyana, was disclaimed as being inauthentic in the very first paragraph. So, I went on to see what else the site had to say, and found the name-request form at the bottom of the very same page linked above. I went ahead and filled it out for my character in hopes of getting some authentic name options for her. In exchange, it's requested that I share their site, so I went ahead and made this quick little blog post to do so. So, the main site is here: http://www.native-languages.org/ and I also used this page: http://www.native-languages.org/states.htm to get an idea of what tribes "Abi" might be from. It seems to be quite a nifty little site with a lot of good information. I mean, I just found it from google, so I can't completely vouch for its authenticity, but it seemed informative. Also, while I'm sharing cool things from my research, I thought this article: http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/06/24/323665644/the-map-of-native-american-tribes-youve-never-seen-before, featuring this map: http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2014/06/Tribal_Nations_Map_NA.pdf was very cool. And, since I'm in a sharing mood, I'm also currently listening to a hauntingly beautiful song by the Foo Fighters called "Home" I'd never heard of before through the magic of wandering around youtube until you find an artist's more obscure songs. I'm listening to it on the full album playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlnOy0ccfVc but you can also listen to just this song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OCEbz9f2UA. Oops, and now I've moved on to re-listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEYgTz2WvzY, which is also very good. Huzzah for obscure Foo Fighters songs! Okay, that should be enough sharing for now :)

In other news, I have written several blog posts over the summer without publishing any of them (except for the most recent two, which were for scholarships). To be precise, there are no less than six unpublished blog drafts in my box right now. Some I will probably never publish, but I would really like to finish at least the one I wrote about how I WON CAMP NANOWRIMO this July!! So, that will be coming to you in due time. Sorry, I know, I'm probably the slowest blogger ever. I did in fact create that fanfiction profile I've been meaning to make, as well, though I have yet to publish the Rumbelle fanfic I meant to and it's already become outdated by the show (which is increasingly epic this season! Huzzah improvement in Ouat! Although some of their plotting still needs work. Anyways, that's a rant for another blog post). Oh, well, I'd still like to publish it. As soon as I get around to publishing it, I'll probably let you know, my blog readership, but until then I'm not going to link my blog to it. I guess I'll mainly be working out my Painted Rock story world for a while. And also doing homework. I should get to that now. So, yeah, this post is mostly just a quick update and a shoutout to www.native-languages.org. Check them out if you're researching Native American languages and things, or if you're just curious. It's always fun to learn about random things, I find.

Thus, the new, mysterious, and fantastical world of Painted Rock begins to unfurl within the folds of the mysterious Violet Mist...

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Kitty Cat of the Month

We all know that kittens are adorable, but do you know something else cute? Baby chicks. This year, my grandma is raising chickens, and as such there is currently an old water tank in her garage filled with eleven fluffy little chicks. Well, they're starting to get their feathers in now, actually, but they're still really cute. Their names include En (Norwegian for one), the first hatched, Francis (I was trying to think of good gender neutral names since we don't know what they are yet), Ash, Smaug (my cousins wanted to do LotR/Hobbit names), Pippin (it took a long time to hatch and my mom was like "it's still a-pippin at that shell!" and so we called it Pippin), and various others (it's hard to keep them all straight! Especially the yellow ones). So, to celebrate the cuteness, this month's kitty of the month is snuggling a baby chicky rather like my grandma's :)

Monthly (or Yearly) 'Something Awesome'

If you'll forgive this bit of self promotion, I was really quite proud of my trunk or treat this Halloween and so I decided to put it up here. I made Penguin's Iceberg Lounge specifically from Gotham, complete with frozen iceberg Ed (to the right of myself). Almost no one got what it was, and no one at all got my Gotham references, so now I’m sharing it with the internet. Click through on the picture to see my tumblr post with more pictures; I also plan to share more specific breakdowns of my trunk decor features later on, so stay tuned.

Bible Quotes of the Year Most Likely

1 John 4: "7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"

Deuteronomy 22: “1 Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother. 3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.” (From my notes in the margin: Don’t pretend you don’t see when others are hurting. Do what you can to help them.)

Luke 1: "37 For with God nothing shall be impossible."

Psalm 139: "2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea: 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well."

All quotes taken from the King James Version of the Holy Bible.