help name my fish!

[OpheliaBlue]

Any of you who have known me for the past 2 years probably remember Orpheus, my beta fish, who kicked the bucket last year :cry:

http://static.flickr.com/5/7799739_b8228aea35_m.jpg

Well, I just got a new one, and since y'all helped me come up with a cool name for the last one, I was hoping y'all could help again with my new one:

http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/4417/fish11db.jpg

I really like mythological names, especially those having to do with water

[A Lost Soul]

Leviathan. :D

[mongreloctopus]

turtle-pirate

[Jacky-Woo]

Out of personal nostalgia... Goldy! I was 5...

What about the japanese for fish. I don't know it, but it must be unique and interesting. Beautiful language...

[irishcream]

Hey, my mum had one of those, but he died when she moved house. She called it 'Sushi'. I always thought that was an excellently ironic name for a fish, especially as she has a cat...:P

RIP Sushi...

[OpheliaBlue]

we were considering Poseidon...but I like Leviathan too heh

what were some other watery gods?

what was Osiris god of? I really like that name

[boldtypespark]

Oceanus, Was a titan that used water.

[Oneironaut]

I've always liked Leviathan. That gets my vote. :goodjob2:

[mongreloctopus]

neptune?

[CryoDragoon]

blob

snorkel

fish

vis/ visje

poisson

piscis

ιχθυς (ichthus)

fische

i've asked my latin teacher for the russian word for "fish"... coming soon...

???

i'd personally call him/her/it "visje"


edit!!!

what about: "cryodragoon"

:wink:

[wasup]

I'd go with Alex...

[Alex D]

Originally posted by ataraxis
I'd go with Alex...

[Barbizzle]

Hapi. Its the egyptian god of the nile river. It also sounds like happy :)

As for you, if you were looking for an egyptian name: Qadesh... look it up hehe.

[Neruo]

Call it U-boat :)

Or perhaps: Sea-ninja.


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I googled for 'god of the sea' and Njord is a keltic sea god. Intresting name.

Nice fishy btw!

[dudesuperior]

Amphitrite-in ancient Greek mythology, was a sea-goddess, and wife of Poseidon :mrgreen:

[OpheliaBlue]

Originally posted by Barbizzle
Hapi. *Its the egyptian god of the nile river. *It also sounds like happy :)
oooh I like that one

so far it's a toss up between that and Osiris

As for you, if you were looking for an egyptian name: Qadesh... look it up hehe.[/b]
hardy har har...this fish is male anyway :P

[A Lost Soul]

The kanji for fish is: 魚 and it's read as "sakana" (I think?)

Osiris is the Egyptian god of the dead and ruler of the Underworld. What a crappy job that must be. :undecided:

And my vote remains for Leviathan. :D

[Gwendolyn]

Leviathan is cool.

[Barbizzle]

I still say Happi. Its such a cute name and it has an interesting and fitting mythological story to it. Osiris is to common and creepy for a fish. youll be happy with happi ;).. then again you could always go with Seven.
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As for you, if you were looking for an egyptian name: Qadesh... look it up hehe.

hardy har har...this fish is male anyway Tongue [/b]
I ment for you :P

[Burns]

Originally posted by irishcream
Hey, my mum had one of those, but he died when she moved house. *She called it 'Sushi'. *I always thought that was an excellently ironic name for a fish, especially as she has a cat...:P

RIP Sushi...

OMG - same thing with my mom! She got a betta named "Sushi" who died...and she has a cat! :shock:

[Seeker]

Two names come to mind:

Chainsaw
Icedawg

[Amethyst Star]

Originally posted by CryoDragoon
i've asked my latin teacher for the russian word for "fish"... coming soon...

Fish: рыба pronounced something akin to "ryba" except the ы is a letter more like the "oo" if you were trying to say "foot" in the back of your throat.

[fajam00m00]

Name him Aquarius!

Then, every time he has a birthday, you can sing:
When the moon is in the 7th house and Jupiter aligns with Mars!!!
Then blah blah blah.
Blah blah.
THIS IS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE (say number of years here) OF AQUARIUS! AGE (here too) OF AQUARIUS! AQUARIUS!!!! AQUARIUS!!!

Yup.

[PhowaBoy]

How 'bout "Wu Li".... the Japanese name for patterns of organic energy (physics :roll: )

(from Encylopedia Mythica):

Zin

A Songhai water spirit (West Africa).

[The Blue Meanie]

Originally posted by OpheliaBlue

hardy har har...this fish is male anyway :P
What about "Mr Blubby"?

Hehehe... I'm sorry, I just have a very childish streak when it comes to naming pets.

[kafine]

I vote Alex.

I think he looks like an Alex.

(is that bowl his permenant home? He might need something bigger...)

[OpheliaBlue]

Originally posted by PhowaBoy
Rusalka</span> (for those of you who may be opera fans *:wink: )
HECK yeah!! I remember that opera, I sang "Song to the Moon" from it in college.

Anyway, I was hesitant to give this fish a female name, considering that he\'s a he. But I\'ve been watching this one, and I don\'t think he bats for the same team as the other betas.

So Rusalka is perfect, I love it!

Originally posted by kafine
is that bowl his permenant home? He might need something bigger...
haha definitely not, I just took that picture before I moved him to Orpheus\'s old gallon size bowl. I\'m going out today to get some more pretty rocks and marbles for it.

Introducing......[b]<span style="color:green">R:

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/4530/rusalka17wx.jpg

edit: ok seriously, this fish loves to pose for the camera lol

[mongreloctopus]

Originally posted by OpheliaBlue

haha definitely not, I just took that picture before I moved him to Orpheus's old gallon size bowl. I'm going out today to get some more pretty rocks and marbles for it.


yikes, i hope he's not superstitious...or have you not told him about the death in his new home..?

[CryoDragoon]

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII RUSALKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:okbyenow:

[Amethyst Star]

Yeah! The Russians triumph again!

But actually, I hadn't heard of the Rusalka. I've heard about the myth of the Vodinoi, though, who is the guardian over all the lakes, rivers, etc. He's also known for pulling people under the water and then those people have to serve him. He can sometimes take on the image of a horse but also the image of a naked old man with green slime in his hair.

I'll have to look into the Rusalka. Is that the name of the opera?

*waves to happy fishy* :okbyenow:

[OpheliaBlue]

Originally posted by Ame
I'll have to look into the Rusalka. Is that the name of the opera?

oh it's not a Russian opera, it's sung in czech, composed by Antonin Dvorák (pronounced duh VOR zhack), who based the story on czech fairy tales

however the term Rusalka was probably russian, and the original story may have been russian, before the librettist took it and translated it into czech, but I'm not sure (still researching that)

edit: there is a less popular opera written by russian composer, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, also titled 'Rusalka' (Русалка), though it was translated INTO Russian from an English play version of the story

rusalki also appear in May Night (Майская ночь) by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who adapted the libretto from Nikolai Gogol’s story "Майская ночь,или Утопленница" (Majskaja noč', ili Utoplennica" = "May Night, or The Drowned Maiden").

so I suppose the 'Rusalka' legend is possibly known throughout all slavic cultures...but in which country it originated I do not know...Russian would be my best guess

[Amethyst Star]

*insert research project* Thanks, Ophelia! :)

[Mark75]

Yeah, Leviathan is cool, but he costs like 50 mp to summon. Also that is a tough fish's name and this fish is obviously a sissy. I'd name him Skippy or Slappy or something... Magikarp...

Eh? What's that? You already named him..? There's still time to change it to Skippy!

[mongreloctopus]

Originally posted by Mark75
Yeah, Leviathan is cool, but he costs like 50 mp to summon.


don't you mean 9 mana, four which has to be island? plus, don't forget the cummulative upkeep, but i guess for a 10/10 trample it's worth it, eh

[A Lost Soul]

Originally posted by mongreloctopus


don't you mean 9 mana, four which has to be island? plus, don't forget the cummulative upkeep, but i guess for a 10/10 trample it's worth it, eh
Oh my shit. I actually understood that. (I played Beta through Ice Age)

[Distant Clone]

Originally posted by fajam00m00
Name him Aquarius!

Then, every time he has a birthday, you can sing:
When the moon is in the 7th house and Jupiter aligns with Mars!!!
Then blah blah blah.
Blah blah.
THIS IS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE (say number of years here) OF AQUARIUS! AGE (here too) OF AQUARIUS! AQUARIUS!!!! AQUARIUS!!!

Yup.Please tell me that's not from a rock opera named Hair. If it is...I think I actually learned something during college.

[docKnubis]

so i remeber this one time i had a fish and i called it bonzi and it was cool and he always swam in circles and if you tapped on the tank it would almost have heart attack









or was that my uncle

[OpheliaBlue]

doc your avatar is hot

but your sig is a disgusting creature of pure grotesque HORROR!!

[Beef Jerky]

:) Hawwow Wasulkah! :okbyenow: :okbyenow: :)

[docKnubis]

Originally posted by OpheliaBlue
doc your avatar is hot

but your sig is a disgusting creature of pure grotesque HORROR!!


hey you found my aunt and uncle cool thanks i was looking for them