LJ Idol Week 0 Intro Post

[my_palimpsest]

I would tell you my name but it wouldn't mean much. The name I am called is not my true name, not the name given to me by the ancestors. I was born an urban Indian, to parents who had, at the time, forgotten the old ways. So, my grandfather never asked the ancestors to send my name to him from the spirit world, riding on the sacred smoke of sage

Comments

[girlinthemarket]

You are gorgeous and that colour looks great on you.

[angelic_mystic]

Very beautiful photo and very beautiful intro. As one who was born away from her tribe and never really knew them, I open my arms and heart to you and offer my prayer to the winds that we may both find our names.

[antianhedonia]

Very lovely intro. Hello and good luck!

[i_id]

The photo, as you know, is gorgeous, but I have to gush over that bouquet...

[kehlen]

What an interesting way too choose a name!

But not all modern parents do not know what they name their child, even if our cultures may lack true naming ceremonies. My own choose the names by their meaning, and I have come to understand that mine, in Greek, meant what I am becoming. Strange, but also wonderful.

Have you ever looked up your name's origins? :-)