Nomenclature: pt II

Senan here.

Thought I'd elaborate on the naming process a tiny bit. Keava did a wonderful job at one in the morning- much better than I could've done as I was suffering from sleep. Not really, but I was still a little incoherent. Anyways...

A Craft name (as I failed to explain before,) is usually the name a Witch uses when they're performing Magick or any sort of ritual. A Coven name is most often the name that your Coven gives you (or calls you depending of the tradition.) Oftentimes, your Coven name is chosen for you by your High Priestess, but we believe in choosing your Coven name and your Craft name. The Coven name (as previously mentioned,) has the similar suffix of Glenn. The prefix is yours to choose and in this Coven you don't have to use Numerology to determine it, but you do have to try to make it fit you. In our tradition, your Craft name is the first name you use, and will be how you are addressed. We use the Coven name like a Surname, which is why we have the similar suffix- because we want to emphasize the family aspect of our Coven. So the full name of a member of the Snowe Valleye Coven goes Craftname Covenname. Us Elder sisters plan on just using the Craft name to refer to eachother, while we use the full name for rituals and spells and the sort- and we'll see how it goes when we get a new member. We're a Coven that embraces change, so who knows? I hope I explained this well enough, because I'm so done.

Moving on to the concept of a True name. This one's the special one. For those of us dorks who've ever read Elfquest, it's kind of like a soul-name. For the unlucky one's who don't know what Elfquest is, it's a comic written by Philip and Wendy Pini about a dying race of elves who travel out of their forest into the desert and meet another tribe and the clash and marry and all sorts of beautiful things. The art is great, I'll put some up later. Anyways, in this wonderful comic, each elf has a soul-name. It's a very secret thing very few others know. It's the name that holds your life-force and your power. When you meet your soulmate they learn it in the height of passion- usually coital, but sometimes in a fight. Eventually you learn that two best friends in the comic were in a fist-fight and they locked eyes and traded soul-names. It was a beautiful scene and surprisingly not gay at all.

ANYWAYS- your True name is like a soul-name. It holds your power. There's a story (I'm shortening it,) about the god Isis and her grandfather Ra, who was the only god more powerful than her. She created a snake from his saliva and some of the dirt he walked on and made it bite him, then told him she'd heal him if he told her his true name. Eventually (after a few attempts to mislead her,) he whispered it into her ear on the condition that she would only tell her son and he would tell no one. Ra lived, but Isis now had power over him and was the most powerful God. If someone knows your true name, they can have power over you by using naming spells and other scary things like that, so it's a secret.

That's about all I've got for names at the moment and hopefully for a very long time. I love my name and I'm very happy with it, but my gosh-golly... it's a long process.

Prefect Love,
Senan Brinaglenn & Keava Faolanglenn