Aunt_Betty
Dec 8, 2003, 06:15 PM
Shato: Rhymes with gato Spanish for cat. DUH!
Storm Wand:Indra : Indian mythlolgy. A lord in the heavens who rules the past.
Rappy: When you kill one it will run fast. Rapido Spanish for fast.
Mushashi: Legendary Japaneese Samurai. He was left handed, so he developed the technique of using two swords at once. He once defeated a rival in a sword fight using a wooden oar, because it was the only weapon close enough that was longer than his opponents sword.
He also wrote the "The Book of Five Rings" on the ethics of being an honorable fighter - a book that is still being read by both Japaneese and American buisnessmen to help them in the boardroom.
YAMIGARASU: means Dark Raven, it's a ninja trick -- you know that thing with the smoke bomb then you cannot see, and get killed
Fire Sceptor: AGNI: Hindu(?) god of the Sun and Fire.
Zanba Some sword "Zanba Tou."
_ Also a "kind of food that cooked glutinous rice pounded into paste."
ICE STAFF: DAGON :A Philistine deity. It is commonly admitted that the name Dagon is a diminutive form, hence a term of endearment, derived from the Semitic root dag, and means, accordingly, "little fish". The name, therefore, indicates a fish-shaped god. This the Bible also suggests when speaking of the Dagon worshipped in the temple of Azotus (I K., v, 1-7): he had face and hands and a portion of his body resembled that of a fish, in accordance with the most probable interpretation of "the stump of Dagon" (verse 5). From the received text of the Septuagint it would seem that he possessed even feet, although Swete's edition gives here a different reading; at any rate, this sentence, in the Greek translation, shows all the appearances of a gloss. With the description found in the Bible coincides that which may be seen on the coins of various Philistine or Ph?cian cities, on most of which Dagon is represented as a composite figure, human as to the upper part of the body, fish-like as to the lower. From this it may well be inferred that Dagon was a fish-god, a fact not in the least surprising, as he seems to have been the foremost deity of such maritime cities as Azotus, Gaza (the early sites of which are supposed to be buried under the sand-mounds that run along the sea-shore), Ascalon, and Arvad. In the monuments -- also most probably in the popular worship -- Dagon is sometimes associated with a female half-fish deity, Derceto or Atargatis, often identified with Astarte.
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_Sinue_
Kefka
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Storm Wand:Indra : Indian mythlolgy. A lord in the heavens who rules the past.
Rappy: When you kill one it will run fast. Rapido Spanish for fast.
Mushashi: Legendary Japaneese Samurai. He was left handed, so he developed the technique of using two swords at once. He once defeated a rival in a sword fight using a wooden oar, because it was the only weapon close enough that was longer than his opponents sword.
He also wrote the "The Book of Five Rings" on the ethics of being an honorable fighter - a book that is still being read by both Japaneese and American buisnessmen to help them in the boardroom.
YAMIGARASU: means Dark Raven, it's a ninja trick -- you know that thing with the smoke bomb then you cannot see, and get killed
Fire Sceptor: AGNI: Hindu(?) god of the Sun and Fire.
Zanba Some sword "Zanba Tou."
_ Also a "kind of food that cooked glutinous rice pounded into paste."
ICE STAFF: DAGON :A Philistine deity. It is commonly admitted that the name Dagon is a diminutive form, hence a term of endearment, derived from the Semitic root dag, and means, accordingly, "little fish". The name, therefore, indicates a fish-shaped god. This the Bible also suggests when speaking of the Dagon worshipped in the temple of Azotus (I K., v, 1-7): he had face and hands and a portion of his body resembled that of a fish, in accordance with the most probable interpretation of "the stump of Dagon" (verse 5). From the received text of the Septuagint it would seem that he possessed even feet, although Swete's edition gives here a different reading; at any rate, this sentence, in the Greek translation, shows all the appearances of a gloss. With the description found in the Bible coincides that which may be seen on the coins of various Philistine or Ph?cian cities, on most of which Dagon is represented as a composite figure, human as to the upper part of the body, fish-like as to the lower. From this it may well be inferred that Dagon was a fish-god, a fact not in the least surprising, as he seems to have been the foremost deity of such maritime cities as Azotus, Gaza (the early sites of which are supposed to be buried under the sand-mounds that run along the sea-shore), Ascalon, and Arvad. In the monuments -- also most probably in the popular worship -- Dagon is sometimes associated with a female half-fish deity, Derceto or Atargatis, often identified with Astarte.
Credits to..
_Sinue_
Kefka
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