{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/527", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "whorl", "thread": { "id": 527, "subject": "Names, animals and meanings (S)", "messages": 2, "voices": 1, "first": "1998-08-03T17:38:33+00:00", "last": "1998-08-04T08:13:44+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "mary whalen", "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com" }, "date": "1998-08-03T17:38:33+00:00", "subject": "(whorl) Names, animals and meanings (S)", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nSaba. Arabic for youth. Also a cooking banana (Musa sapientum) in\nthe Philippines, or the textile made from the fiber of the plant. \nCommander of the Trivigaunti airship.\n\nSand. Grains formed from the breakup of rocks. Also slang for\ncourage. Sergeant in Vironese army.\n\nSard. Also sarda. Any fish species in genus Sarda. Also could be\nshort for sardine (Sardina pilchardus). Also the name for someone\nfrom Sardinia or a type of chalcedony. Owner of a pawnshop on Saddle\nStreet.\n\nScale. A flat, plate-like extension of an animal's body, made of\nvarious substances. One of Bison's lieutenants.\n\nSchist. Also spelled shist. An easily split crystalline rock. \nVironese soldier.\n\nSciathan. Irish word for wing, side, part, arm, or lid made of\nwicker. Spelled with an acute accent over the second a. Flyer\ncaptured by the Trivigauntis.\n\nScleroderma. Plural sclerodermas or sclerodermata. Greek for hard\nskin. A genus of fungi in family Sclerodermataceae. They have\nhard-skinned fruiting bodies that open irregularly. Also a disease\ncausing skin to become stiff. The cats' meatwoman. Became a hero on\nBlue.\n\nScup. Either of two fish with large, close-together scales. \nStenostomus chrysops or Stenostomus aculeatus. Captain hired by Crane\nto watch the Pilgrim's Way.\n\nScylla. Greek for either flayer or whelp. In Greek myth, Scylla was\noriginally a beautiful nymph, the daughter of Cratais (or Ceto) and\nPhorcys or Typhon and Echidna or of others. She played with the sea\nnymphs and remained a complete virgin. Glaucos (Greyish green) the\nsea god fell in love with her and tried to get help from Circe (Hawk\nor Circle), but Circe fell in love with Glaucos and turned Scylla into\na monster. The exact description of this form is disputed in myths. \nBasically, she had six heads with triple rows of teeth, twelve feet, a\nring of dogs' heads around her waist, and immortal. She lived by the\nsea in a cave near the whirlpool monster Charybdis. She was immortal\nand could only be stopped by invoking her mother's name. She\neventually was turned into a rock. A major goddess. One of the Nine\nand of the Seven. Goddess of water, river, lakes. Associated with\nfish, camels, and horses. Patron of the first day of the week and of\nViron. Shown with eight, ten, or twelve arms. Supposed child of\nTyphon and Echidna. Strong-willed, bossy, egotistical, and nasty.\n\nServal. From Latin lupus cervalis (deer wolf). A feline related to\nlynxes. Felis serval (also Felis capensis). Looks like a thin bobcat\nwith large ears and a small head. Captain who pretended to arrest\nSilk in Limna. Was married to Hyacinth.\n\nSewellel. From the Chinook word meaning a blanket of sewellel skins\n(the name of the animal itself in Chinook is ugwulal). The mountain\nbeaver (Aplodontidae Aplodontia rufa). The sewellel looks like a\nshort-legged beaver with no tail. It doesn't actually live in the\nmountains. They dig the burrows in which they live. One of Spider's\nspycatchers, killed in the tunnels.\n\nShale. An easily breakable rock formed by the joining of mud, clay,\nor or silt. Also archaic English for shell or husk. A Vironese\nsoldier.\n\nShell. A protective structure that is part of certain animals'\nbodies, made of various substances. Patera who knew Silk in school.\n\nShrike. Any species of family Laniidae, especially genus Lanius,\nincluding the butcher-bird. Birds with a strong notched bill hooked\nat the tip that often impale their prey on thorns. Scleroderma's\nhusband. A butcher.\n\nSigada. The meaning of this word is given to Silk by Hossaan, but I\ndon't remember it. Real name of Dr. Crane.\n\nSilah. Daughter of the Rani.\n\nSilk. A substance produced by various insects, especially silk worms,\noften used for cocoons, or the fabric made of those substances. \nPatera on Sun Street. Was a frozen embryo purchased by Calde Tussah. \nThe books are about Silk's transformation (like animals do in\ncocoons). The name also relates to Tussah and Chenille.\n\nSimuliid. Any species of family Simuliidae. The simuliids are small\nbiting two-winged flies with larvae that live in flowing water. A\nCommissioner in Viron. He has connections to the Council. The part\nabout larvae living in water reminds me of the pool scene. Since\nlarva in Latin is a ghost, like a lemur, it gives further connection. \nI even have to wonder if Simuliid has been given a chemical body as\nwell.\n\nSinew. Tendon, or strength. Nettle's eldest son.\n\nSirka. Officer in charge of the Trivigaunti advance party.\n\nSiyuf. Reportedly this means swords in Arabic, but I can't confirm it.\n Commander of the Trivigaunti armed forces.\n\nSkate. Any species of genus Raja and related genera in family\nRajidae. Their side fins are very large and triangular, making them\nlook like manta rays. Oosik's subordinate. Raja is the masculine of\nRani, so it's possible this is a clue to his real loyalties, or that\nhe is a spy for Trivigaunte.\n\nSkin. Organ found as the outer covering of many animals. Bison's\nsubordinate.\n\nSkink. Any species of family Scincidae (Skinkidae). Lizards who live\nin dry, sandy places. Many burrow. Small, small scales, notched\ntail. Also archaic word meaning skunk. Also a soup made of beef. \nInsurgent leader who attacks the Palatine. Crippled.\n\nSlate. A type of rock made of compressed clay or other rocks. Also a\nslab of stone used to write on. Vironese soldier.\n\nSphigx. Greek for throttler, strangler. Also Sphinx or Phix. A\nmythological monster with a lion's body, wings, and a woman's head. \nChild of Typhon and Echidna, or Echidna and Orthos. Sent to Thebes to\nplague the inhabitants. She was sent either by Hera, goddess of\nmarriage, who wanted to Punish Laios (who was the father of Oidipous\n(Oedipus)) for kidnapping Chrysippos (Golden Horse) from his father\nPelops (Chrysippos was a handsome boy who Laios had fallen in love\nwith, and Hera didn't like this since Laios was married to Iocaste\n(Jocasta)), or by Apollon (the sun god) who wanted to punish the\nThebans for neglecting his worship. She trapped her victims and then\nasked them a riddle (which went something like, \"what animal walks\nfirst on four legs, then on two, and finally on three?\"). No one\ncould answer this and she would strangle them. About this time Laios\nwas killed by Oidipous (who didn't know he was Laios' son). Creon\n(ruler), the regent of Thebes, offered the kingdom to anyone who could\ndefeat the Sphinx. Oidipous came and solved the riddle (the answer is\n\"a human\"). The Sphinx then killed herself. A major goddess. One of\nthe Nine and of the Seven. Goddess of war and courage. Associated\nwith lions and other felines. Patron of the seventh day of the week\nand of Trivigaunte. Supposed child of Typhon and Echidna. \nBad-tempered. Looking at the legend, it seems possible to me that\nSilk is meant to have some connection with Oedipus, and that his\nparents really are Typhon and Kypris, and that Kypris possessed\nHyacinth, and (this is what I know for sure) he kills off the worship\nof Typhon (Pas).\n\nSpider. Any species in order Araneida, especially in class Arachnida.\n Arthropods with eight legs that often secrete a strong silk-like\nsubstance to make complex webs. Potto's chief spycatcher. The name\nsounds like spy. He is in control of a web of informants and spies.\n\nSumaire. Irish for sucker, blood-sucker, leech, vampire, parasite,\nslow person. Written with an acute accent over the u. Flyer killed\nby the Trivigauntis. His name may be intended as mosquito, as that\nwould fit in with the other Flyers, but it seems odd for him to have a\nname like this.\n\nSwallow. Any of many species of a large group in family Hirundinidae.\n Small, long-winged, short-billed, forked tail. The swifts (family\nApodidae) are also often commonly called swallows. Man in charge of\nthe talus factory. It's possible that his name refers to chimney\nswifts, which get sooty because of fires in chimneys.\n\nprion" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "mary whalen", "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com" }, "date": "1998-08-04T08:13:44+00:00", "subject": "(whorl) Names, animals and meanings (S)", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nSigada. Apparently an Arabic word. Hossaan tells Silk that it means\nhandsome and humble. Real name of Dr. Crane.\n\nprion" } ] } ] }