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in reply to a message by PhoenixPhire
I don't know that there are any names definitively Pagan, since there are no saints or angels per se. Modern Wiccans/Pagans often adopt as names words that refer to natural objects or phenomena, or names that have those meanings.
Paganism in general is not organized or dogmatic enough to have a roster of specifically pagan names. Wicca is probably not much different. Old Celtic names are rather pagan by virtue of their age and region of origin. Names of Hindu deities may suit the meanings pagans want to honor in names. Names from ancient mythology are appropriate names for pagans and pantheists, as well.
I suspect Gaia might be a little new-agey and cliched; the pagans I know are more 'down to earth.' A pagan (though perhaps not Wiccan) friend just named her daughter Lily; another named hers Raven.
I should mention that I'm in the US.
- chazda
Paganism in general is not organized or dogmatic enough to have a roster of specifically pagan names. Wicca is probably not much different. Old Celtic names are rather pagan by virtue of their age and region of origin. Names of Hindu deities may suit the meanings pagans want to honor in names. Names from ancient mythology are appropriate names for pagans and pantheists, as well.
I suspect Gaia might be a little new-agey and cliched; the pagans I know are more 'down to earth.' A pagan (though perhaps not Wiccan) friend just named her daughter Lily; another named hers Raven.
I should mention that I'm in the US.
- chazda
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