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| Aphrodite
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Ancient Greek goddess of
love & beauty. |
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| Aurora
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Roman
goddess of the dawn |
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| Beaujolais |
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French wine-growing region; also a
wine from this region. |
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| Bella
Luna |
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Italian,
"beautiful moon" |
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| Benu |
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A
heron-like bird; one of the forms taken by the
Egyptian sun god Ra. Later linked by the Greeks
to their phoenix. |
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| By
the Time We Got to Woodstock |
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A song about a rock concert which
supposedly "defined a generation". |
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| Calypso |
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Greek
mythology: a sea nymph who detained Odysseus for 7 years. |
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| Equinoxes |
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The time when the sun crosses the
plane of the earth's equator, making night & day of
approximately equal length all over the earth. Vernal
Equinox occurs about 21 March and Autumnal
Equinox occurs about 22 September. |
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| Gawain |
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One
of King Arthur's knights of the Round Table. |
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| Greenoge |
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Gaelic: a verdant green location. |
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| Intertidal
Zone |
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Along the shoreline, the area
which lies between the low-water & high-tide marks. |
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| Lorelei |
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An
old sea-farers' name for mermaids, who entice
sailors near dangerous shoals, or to linger on
foreign shores far from home. |
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| Luma
Luma |
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From
Australian aboriginal mythology; the giant Luma
Luma turned himself into a whale and crossed the
sea, eventually meeting the Gunwinggu people and
teaching them painting and dancing skills. |
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| Lung
Wang |
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(or
Long Wang) Chinese dragon kings, usually
considered gods of rivers and lakes. When angry,
the Lung Wang were said to bring fogs and
earthquakes. |
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| Mnemonic
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Pertaining to the memory,
or a memory assistant. |
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| Narcissus |
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In Greek mythology, a
handsome youth who fell in love with his own reflection in a
pool of water & was enamored to the point of death; after
his death, the gods turned him into a flower which bears the
name. |
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| Niamh |
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(pron.
"neeve") An old Irish feminine name
meaning 'bright'. In Irish mythology, Niamh was
the princess of the Land of Promise. She eloped
with Ossian, son of Finn MacCool, and departed
for the Otherworld. |
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| No
Commitment |
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"Non
sum paratus me committere." A
tongue-in-cheek rendering of Latin, which could
be translated as "I'm not ready to make a
commitment". You could use the phrase to end
a relationship, perhaps? |
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| Orion's
Belt |
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A string of bright stars which
make up the 'belt' of the constellation Orion, the Hunter. |
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| Quicksilver |
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An
older name for the element mercury, aptly
describing the appearance and action of the
liquid metal. |
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| Sanguine |
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Reddish or ruddy; blood-red;
cheerfully optimistic. |
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| Soma |
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Greek for 'body' |
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| Sorcha |
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An
early Irish feminine name, later Anglicized as
Sarah, but now seen in its original form
occasionally. |
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| Stigmata |
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Marks said to resemble the wounds
of the crucified body of Christ, Jesus. |
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