Zarya Gorgoniya

Bureaucratic details

• Name: Primary, Alternate, Household or Other?
  
• Action: New, Resub (kingdom), Resub (laurel), Name Change (retain old as alt), Name Change (release old name), Name Change from Holding Name, Appeal, Other
  
• Already Registered Name?
• Authenticity desired?
• Allowed Changes: All, Intermediate and Minor, Minor only, No changes
• If changes needed: Language/Culture, Meaning, Sound, Spelling (details)
• Allow Holding Name?
• Gender of Name
• Previous submission history, if any
• Kingdom?

Name Inspiration

• Zarya - Russian/Romani

Given Name

• Zarya - Slavic given name using alternate Revised English transliteration system, sn Zaria (m) -- Zakharii Zaria. 1618. [Tup 158] Vars: Zara Owanowich. 1648. [Mor 88]. Wickenden 2nd edition.

Notes:

Zaria is the name of the pagan Russian goddess of the dawn, depicted in Russian folklore as a beautiful maiden. More importantly to the heralds (since we can't register names that were only used by gods), it is documented as a man's (!) name in Wickenden as Zaria and Zara. So convincing the Heralds to register it as a woman's name might be tricky, despite the fact it is grammatically feminine and the name of a female goddess. But I have developed a couple strategies for this problem.

Zarya is the name of many places in Russia and Ukraine, all of them very small. The few that give dates of founding were all established in the 20th century after the Russian Revolution (aka Red/Beautiful Dawn), or renamed after the revolution (two in Ukraine).

Interestingly, the word zaryanka (robin) is related to zarya according to Dal'... Wickenden documents Zaranko as a men's name (diminutive of Zaran)... I should be able to document a/ia switches, plus the well-established o/a switches...

Zara meaning zarya is attested in Sreznevskii to 1097. Zarya is attested (ibid) to 1073 and includes more general meaning - glow, light, etc, in addition to utrennaya zarya (and vechernaya zarya). No zaryanka, though. Not in Wickenden, either. :-(

Byname/Surname

• Documentation for name

Combination

• Documentation for the combination of the names
• Needed if lingual mix, temporal incompatibility, double-given name, etc.

Blazon Information

Armory: morning star (sun on a stick - as in the weapon! duh! aka "spiked mace") but also wanting to incorporate my house symbol which is a Gorgon head but possibly in profile

• http://heraldicart.org/mace/
• maybe the handle of the morning star entwined with a snake? a Gorgon (or demi-Gorgon) wielding a morning star? a sun/star/comet charged with the head of a Gorgon - like a "sun in his splendor" but with snakes? Gorgon head with a 4-pointed star on the forehead?
  • See "sun in his splendor" option 5! - http://heraldicart.org/sun/
  • Comets - http://heraldicart.org/comet/

• Blazon Desired:

Insta-Boing Checklist

• Registered name
• Rule of Tincture
• Complexity 8 or less
• Slot-machine
• Sword-and-dagger
• Offensive/Presumptuous
• Unity of Posture/Orientation/Arrangement

Conflict Checking

• as needed

Individually Attested Pattern

• Documentation for any design that violates the rules