Message: "Where is my name from?"

Where is my name from?

by Marya (guest)

1/6/2006, 9:12 AM

Hello, I'm Russian and my name is Marya. I know that the site says that Marya is Russian for Mary but my grandmother once told me that my name is ancient Greek. Unfortunately I don't have any information about this. Does anyone know anything about this?

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- Kassios

1/8/2006, 10:03 AM

Ooooops, mistake!!!

Sorry Marya, Andy is right. Also the name in the book I mentioned is MAYRA not MARYA!!! I apologise, my eyes are playing games to me, I must be getting old...

"The cunning justifies, the silly insists, the clever admits."
ARISTARCHOS

- Kassios +2

1/7/2006, 2:36 AM

Your grandomother is right, here is the information from the book "From Gaia to Hypatia, Greek women of the Ancient world", ISBN:960-316-288-4:
"MARIA-MARYA: Follower of Artemis, mother of Lokros by Zeus."

"The cunning justifies, the silly insists, the clever admits."
ARISTARCHOS

- Andy (guest) +1

1/7/2006, 3:24 AM

MAIRA, not Maria!

The mother of Lokros was MAIRA, not MARIA.

- Kassios (guest)

1/8/2006, 9:43 AM

True, true..!

- Elphi

1/6/2006, 5:26 PM

Well, Mary is the English version of the Greek Mariam / Maria.
Couldn't that have been what your grandmother meant?
The name has roughly gone the way of Miriam - Mariam- Maria (- Mary)

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