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On the naming of names

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Alice K. Turner09 Jul 2003, 05:27originalas archived
On the naming of names
Whoops, I did get the ship Samru confused with the starship. Does anyone remember who the original Samru was?--the lovely lady who inspired Shah Jehan to build the Taj Mahal in her memory. (And I have seen the Taj by moonlight....) As for Tzadkiel (which can be spelled a number of different ways), s/he is not confined to being an angel of biography. According to Gustav Davidson's A Dictionary of Angels, which has essentially been the standard since publication in 1967, and virtually certainly informed Wolfe and almost as certainly Robertson Davies, s/he is the angel of justice, and 4th of the 10 archangels of the Briatic world, as well as a guardian of the East Wind, and of the planet Jupiter. -alga

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