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Help[Facts] Re: Names: Pyre, Pythos
in reply to a message by Kathryn
When PriaposLovs gets back (where IS he, anyway? He's been gone too long.) he'll no doubt be able to give you the Greek etymology on "Pyre" and "Pythos".
I would think that "Pythos" may have something to do with the Oracle of Delphi, though, as I know the priestess there in ancient times was called the "Pythia". And then there were the Pythian Games celebrated there every four years (much like the Olympic Games), only these were in honor of the god Apollo.
And Latin words for "fire" are: "ignis", "flamma", and "incendium".
-- Nanaea
I would think that "Pythos" may have something to do with the Oracle of Delphi, though, as I know the priestess there in ancient times was called the "Pythia". And then there were the Pythian Games celebrated there every four years (much like the Olympic Games), only these were in honor of the god Apollo.
And Latin words for "fire" are: "ignis", "flamma", and "incendium".
-- Nanaea
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PriaposLovs is back from a long weekend of practicing inertia in the villages of Peloponnese :)
I suspect that Pythos is, as Nan perspicaciously pointed out, related to Pythia, the priestess of the Oracle of Delphi. Pythia, in turn, was names after Python, a mythical serpent demon killed by that s.o.b. Apollo near Delphi. Although the name Pythos is not recored in *A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names* (ed. P. M. Fraser and E. Matthews, Oxford University Press, 1987) -- the ultimate authority on Greek names (http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/lgpn1.html) -- the following are related bona fide names: Python, Pythios, Pythis, Pythion, Pythan, Pytheos, Pythias, Pythocles.
I suspect that Pythos is, as Nan perspicaciously pointed out, related to Pythia, the priestess of the Oracle of Delphi. Pythia, in turn, was names after Python, a mythical serpent demon killed by that s.o.b. Apollo near Delphi. Although the name Pythos is not recored in *A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names* (ed. P. M. Fraser and E. Matthews, Oxford University Press, 1987) -- the ultimate authority on Greek names (http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/lgpn1.html) -- the following are related bona fide names: Python, Pythios, Pythis, Pythion, Pythan, Pytheos, Pythias, Pythocles.
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Thanks, Nanaea.
I did some further searching and found that pyr is Greek for fire, which is probably where Pyre originated from.
Now, only if I knew why Pythos was stuck in my head!
I did some further searching and found that pyr is Greek for fire, which is probably where Pyre originated from.
Now, only if I knew why Pythos was stuck in my head!
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