Animistic Naming Conventions

[TeaDidikai]

Okay... I know you Animists are out there... lurking, spying, giving me just cause to be paranoid! gonk

Anyway- I wanted to create a light topic on animism, naming conventions and our own personal things that have names.

If folks want to discuss animism in the guild and their view of it's validity, or how it comes into one's practices- I refer you to the animism thread located here.

Other than that- I'll start.

My cars (I've had three) have been named Madrona, Tayrik and Haddie. They were two Ford Taurus Station Wagons and a 74 VW Super Beetle respectively.

My computers have been Archibald and Leopold.

My iPod Shuffle is Matcha- and yes, it's bright green.

Most of my spiritual items do have names. Most of them would be pissed if I named them to folks they weren't introduced to.  

[Gho the Girl]

TeaDidikai

Okay... I know you Animists are out there... lurking, spying, giving me just cause to be paranoid! gonk

She's onto us.
Get your head down, she'll see you!!

Quote:

Anyway- I wanted to create a light topic on animism, naming conventions and our own personal things that have names.

If folks want to discuss animism in the guild and their view of it's validity, or how it comes into one's practices- I refer you to the animism thread located here.

Other than that- I'll start.

My cars (I've had three) have been named Madrona, Tayrik and Haddie. They were two Ford Taurus Station Wagons and a 74 VW Super Beetle respectively.

My computers have been Archibald and Leopold.

My iPod Shuffle is Matcha- and yes, it's bright green.

Most of my spiritual items do have names. Most of them would be pissed if I named them to folks they weren't introduced to.

My car is named Lucille. Our previous car had already been named the Cricket by my grandmother, so we respected that name.

My ipods don't have names, but I certainly have a relationship with them. Even when I don't formally name something, it always has it's own identity.  

[Collowrath]

I'm very particular (read: inconsistent) with what is named. For instance, none of my things on my shrine have names. Neither does my laptop, phone, etc. But my cars have had names. My jeep was Della Berdine (a name I called my grandmother when I was a toddler... she didn't tolerate it from anyone else!). I chose that name for her because she never let me down. There were times where it acted like junk of course (it was as old as I am), but it never left me stranded and never failed to get me out of trouble.

My next car was Soraya - it was touchy, moody, and demanded to be cleaned regularly. Then she was wrecked and my lovely Sarsoor was killed. Now I'm stuck with a trusty though endlessly unreliable Cadillac Catera named Christine, after Stephen King's killer Caddy. sad She's intensely loyal to my partner, and isn't afraid of letting me know.  

[AniMajor]

Naming stuff always weirds me out. Because some things just are, and giving them a name seems meaningless, other things don't need to be given the familiarity of a name. I've tried naming things, but most of those are out of necessity. Like, my computer's named so it can be found easily on the network, but most things are named what they are. Like TomTom, Blue Pony, Not Aslan.

Names never really stick, either. Like, I could call my camera "Bob", but the name doesn't have any meaning for me, and if it did, I'd now be responsible for giving an object a name. Next, it'd start getting personality and desires, and I just don't want to be responsible for that.  

[Wrath of Ezekiel]

Ahem, not exactly a name, but I refer to my parents' vehicles as the Evil Ones. sweatdrop

Oh, and my bicycle is called Silver Streak....even though it's not silver and it's definitely not really fast (it's a mountain bike). xd  

[Violet Song jat Shariff]

Collowrath

I'm very particular (read: inconsistent) with what is named. For instance, none of my things on my shrine have names. Neither does my laptop, phone, etc. But my cars have had names.

I'm the same way mrgreen .
Although given how much I interact with my laptop, it's surprising I don't feel an actual bond with it or have a name for it redface .  

[TheDisreputableDog]

My laptop's name is Ginger.
I have three external hard-drives named Junior, Belladonna, and Penguin (my girlfriend named that one).
My old photo iPod's name was Valar Dohaeris, and my current video iPod's name is Prince.
My printer's name is Aidan.
My car doesn't have a name yet, and neither does my Gameboy.
My cellphone and my old digital camera had names for about an hour, but then I forgot them. I have a vague feeling that was why the camera got a strange error no one can fix and my phone is now nearly in two separate pieces; it makes sense to me on a gut level but I can't explain it in my head.

I can't think of anything else I've named; it seems to be mostly electronics. I don't have a lot of tools I would call magical per se, although I do have a large stick I've held onto for nearly three years for some reason besides a love of collecting large sticks (generally I let them go when they become inconvenient, but this one I've retained through five moves). I have a clay incense burner that's a tree with a face reading a book—I know he has a name but I don't know it yet.  

[Cranium Squirrel]

My laptop is Tiger Cub (a double joke based on my internet nick - it means tiger - and my favourite Night Watch character)

I've had SIDNEY I and II, Bleu and a few others I can't recall right now as main computers. My current one is the Queen Anne's Revenge.

My Creativelabs Zen is named Stillwater, after the Zen Shorts panda.

Our car is the Fishmobile. 3nodding

Husband's computers have included Cake or Death (a two hard drive affair; the drives were Cake and Or Death) and his current Dhamma.  

[Ainwyn]

My cello's name is Ophelia, which is the name of my second favorite female character from Shakespeare (my favorite being Viola, from Twelfth Night, but I figured that would give my poor cello identity issues!). My violin's name is Jeanique (I'm actually not sure how to spell it, the name just came to me, and I suck at French). Strangely enough, I've never been able to name my clarinet or my haegum, and I've had the clarinet for about 10 years now.

I named my car Cali, though my friends quickly changed it to the Purple Pride Mobile. Similarly, I named my laptop Chaucer (me and my friends have a thing for naming our computers after famous authors, for the inspiration), but it's become Willow after I changed my background to a picture of Willow from Buffy, who is pointing her magic at the computer's start button. Now she's starting to develop a personality, like the fact that she gets jealous and logs me out of IM or just freezes my entire computer as soon as my fiancee comes online. Sometimes I curse my friends for giving her that name, and myself for using that background, and now she's probably going to get mad at me for typing this...  

[Fiddlers Green]

My sword is named Algernon.
I rarely name objects unless we converse, in so much that the concept of me addressing it by name would actually be relevant to it.
It indicates a level of personal familiarity that I don't have with most.
Some spirits already have means of self address and identification which don't make much sense verbally.  

[breuddwyd]

I don't name much but:
Teddies- Freddie Blue, Semmy, Porky, Bolt, Tigger, Hazel, Sleepy, Hugmy...
Vehicles- Lilly the pink (I was actually named after this land rover blaugh ) Gloria the green Goddess, Max Steel (an old peurgout (sp?wth I can usually spell that!) that we made a shield for because dad was scared we'd crash it while we learned to drive), Charlie the Carlton, The Beast (A stripped down and shortened range rover with loads of mods, painted red, with a transparent bonet and lights in the engine), Isabelle, Fishguard Belle, Taff...
I-pods- Douchesse (Shuffle 1st gen), Duke (Shuffle 2nd gen), Black Nessy (original): Only my shuffle 2nd generation is working but I keep Nessy and Douchesse because I'm a big softy. razz  

[scorplett]

My first car, an '84 Red renault 5 was called Bill but that's 'cause I inherited the car from other family members who had two cars at the time and one was Bill and the other Ben (Bill and Ben the flowerpot men was a well known kids TV show on the BBC)
My second car was a '92 White Clio was my first Car that was bought outside of hand-me-down within the family and I called it SnowBó
My third car was another Clio, a petrol Blue '99 Clio and that was just called Bó
My current car.. yes, it's yet another Renault Clio, '02 Met Red and she's called MoBó, she's gettin' really old and cranky these day's with a few hip replacements and a pacemaker the wee thing has done over 160000 miles since I've had her!

My computer is called Pheonix, because it was risen from the ashes of Windoze Fista into WindozeXp and then into Ubuntu.

I don't have an I-pod, *wishes really hard for an iPhone or touch*, though my Old creative was often refered to as 'JunkBox', considering at the time most MP3Players had 512Mb and this thing had 20GB (which incidentally was more memory than my computer at the time), it ended up with so much music that I hadn't a clue what was on there... something for everyone for sure though.

MoBó had an argument with the JunkBox.
JunkBox doesn't get used in MoBó any more.
MoBó always wins the argument when she doesn't like people.  

[CuAnnan]

It's hard to figure out what's happy to be named and what's not.
The guitar doesn't so much mind, her name's bethyn. But the iPod and computer are too personal. They represent too many connections to things and openings. I'm not sure I'm happy to give out their names.  

[Sunegami]

My laptop and phone have never had names; my car, on the other hand, is named Kusanagi. Nagi's a white 2-door 1996 Ford Escort LX. He's not much to look at. Due to an accident years ago, almost his entire right side has been replaced: there's a big spray-painted-over rust spot on the rear quarter panel, and the replacement door is out of alignment, so you have to slam it to get it to shut properly. Nevertheless, he's a good car, & he gets me where I need to go with no trouble. ♥

My boyfriend has a slew of guitars we collectively refer to as his "Harem". They are all female, and all have names. I can't remember them all at the moment, but his favorite is an acoustic Martin guitar named Sophie. ♥  

[liantha-ray]

My current car is named Crayon (previous owner had kids and I think one shoved a crayon down a vent so every time I turn on the heat my car smells like crayons)
My husbands computer is Ozymandias
My pc has been through so many incarnations we have started to call it Sadartha
One of the best namings I have heard so far has been for an Xbox 360. It was first named Usul, then it died the death of the red ring, When it returned it was renamed Leto...I love my nerds