Looking for name

[idealrain]

I need a name for a female and male god/goddess starting with a "A". What could Poppy be short for? isn't there a goddess of like medince or something? thanks

[JKMcGonagall]

I looked these up using a Google search of Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses. Some of the sites have pretty good lists of names of Greek and Roman Goddesses and those associated with them. Wikipedia lists quite a few. Here are some of the more well known ones I picked out. There are also various spellings of some of these. Have no idea what Poppy could stand for. I know it is a type of flower and that opium can be made from them. Hope this helps you with names for the kittens.

Kay

Greek

Aphrodite – goddess of love and beauty
Ares – god of war
Artemis – goddess of the moon and hunting
Athena (Minerva) – goddess of crafts and war
Asklepios – god of medicine and healing
Ate – goddess of mischief

Roman

Apollo – god of the sun
Aurora – goddess of the dawn
Astraeus – god of the four winds
Asclepius – god of medicine and healing

Others associated with the Gods/Goddesses

Atlas – held the world on his shoulders
Adonis – beautiful youth
Andromeda – daughter of the King and Queen of Ethiopia
Arachne – weaver who became a spider
Alastor – the avenger
Alectrona – daughter of the sun in early mythology
Amphitrite – sea goddess, wife of Poseidon
Antiope – daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons

I went back to Google and looked up Poppy. The following quote comes from opiods.com and is most likely the reason the JKR chose Poppy for the name of Hogwarts mediwitch. It doesn't seem to be a nickname for a longer name.

From opiods.com

Poppy is one of the most important medicinal plants. Traditionally, the dry opium was considered an astringent, antispasmodic, aphrodisiac, diaphoretic, expectorant, hypnotic, narcotic, and sedative. Poppy has been used against toothaches and coughs. The ability of opium from poppy to serve as an analgesic is well known. Opium and derivatives of opium are used in the pharmaceutical industry as narcotic analgesics, hypnotics, and sedatives. These compounds are also used as antidiarrheals, antispasmodics, and antitussives. Opium and the drugs derived from opium are addictive and can have toxicological effects.

I found this interesting. I never knew that poppy's were used for so much. Hope all this helps you.

Kay

[Catwoman99]

Check out www.pantheon.org. It's a great site. I've used it as reference for fics myself.

- April :-)

[JKMcGonagall]

That really is a cool site, April. I didn't find it last night when I was looking. I am marking it as one of my favorites now. I bet it will be helpful to Idealrain.

Kay

[BlazeFourPaws]

I like Ares and and Artemis. Pantheon is a great site.

[lazy idealrain]

Would Aprodite be too much of a stretch for "poppy"?

[JKMcGonagall]

I personally think Aphrodite would be a bit of a stretch for Poppy. If you are looking for a way to name one of the kittens after Poppy, you could do like some others have and come up with a tradition of names in the Dumbledore/McGonagall family. Which as I recall you did at the beginning of your story. I had to go back and check because it has been so long since I read it.

You had, I believe...
First name: Mythical beginning with an A
Second name: Scottish name

Might I suggest...
Third name: Honoring a family member (alive or deceased)
Fourth name: Honoring a longtime family friend (this is where Poppy could come in)

I hope this helps you. I don't really know what you are looking for.

Kay

[idealrain]

hmmm.....lots to think about. thanks!

[amandahleigh]

Rather than look up names of gods or goddesses, I looked for names that, in the origin, included the words god or goddess. Heres what I found:

Alala is a name that means "War Goddess" in Greek... Don't know how you'd get Poppy from that either, but...

Akshay is a Hundu god (male)

Ambika is the Hundu 'goddess of destructio' (female)

Annapurna (f) is a Hindu goddess


Annona is the latin Godess of the Harvest

Aradia is the goddess of witches, which is pretty cool. It's a Greek name.

Asvin means the God of Medicine (Hindu) Though the actual gods are Nasatya and Dasra (don't ask me why, lol)

I also found this that might be interesting:
The name "Minerva" may come from the Indo-European root *men-, from which "mental" and "mind" are also derived. However, the non-Indo-European speaking Etruscans had a goddess Menrva, so the name may be of entirely unknown derivation.

Minerva was the daughter of Jupiter and Metis. She was considered to be the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, crafts, and the inventor of music. As Minerva Medica, she was the goddess of medicine and doctors.

Has nothing to do with the letter A, but I thought it was really funny.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva

[amandahleigh]

Ooh I found this too:

Asclepius – Mythical God of Medicine
Even though Asclepius is not a real person, he is mythical, we figured he had a place on our timeline of extraordinary people in healthcare because his echo is still around today in the serpent-and-staff symbol used by the medical profession.
www.medhunters.com/articles/timelineAsclepius.html



Asclepius is ancient Greek.