Zarya Gorgoniya
Contents
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.
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
Gorgoniia - expected feminine form of Russian saint's name Gorgonii, sn. Gorgonii (m) -- Gorgonii, martyr. 4th Century. from Wickenden.
Documentation of feminization pattern (all per Wickenden): Artemii -> Artemiia, Evgenii -> Evgeniia, Evsignii -> Evsigniia, etc.
| Russian words: | Russian names |
| Горгона, Медуза | Gorgonij (martyr), |
| Амазонка, валькирия | - , - |
| урод, чудовище, изберг | Urod (ugly), Groza/Groznata (terror/awe), Groznye Ochi (terrifying eyes) |
| воин, боец, воитель, борец (warrior, fighter) | Boi, Boika, syn Boeva, Boiak, Borets, Borim, Boris, Borislav (glorious fight), Voin, Voina (fem.!), Voislava (war's glory), Voit, Vor (slay) |
| змея | Zmei, Zmeika (snake) |
| булава, жезл, молот, молоток | Bulava (mace), Bulavka (little mace), Zhez (?mace?), Molot (hammer), Molotko (little hammer), Moloteia |
| ударять, бить, стучать, колотить, взбивать, вколачивать, прибивать (to hit) | Bitiag, Bitmut, Bitomir (strike earth), |
| грек, гречанка, греческий | Grek, Grekyna/Grekina/Grekinia (fem.) |
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,
- Dark color: black - I will probably sweat to death and it will be so worth it
- Light metal: yellow/gold - if we could make the mace in the metal so it stands out that would be awesome.
- Not sure if we could do red accents or if the object has to be one color? Happy to play with red, or blue in there somewhere!
giant eyes within a wavy green border...
- http://heraldicart.org/mace/
- See "sun in his splendor" option 5! - http://heraldicart.org/sun/
- Comets - http://heraldicart.org/comet/
Blazon Desired:
Conflict Checking
- as needed
Individually Attested Pattern
- Documentation for any design that violates the rules
Insta-Boing Checklist
- Registered name
- Rule of Tincture
- Complexity 8 or less
- Slot-machine
- Sword-and-dagger
- Offensive/Presumptuous
- Unity of Posture/Orientation/Arrangement
