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our name Irasema
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i too have been searching for the meaning of my name. my friend from Brazil says Irasema means "virgin with honey lips".
another thing i found was the legend of the Brazilian goddess Irasema. she was a virgin who was sacraficed (pushed into a volcano) by her brothers. i am still looking for that whole story because i would like to know why they did that.
my mother told me there was a famous Venezuelan actress named Irasema Dilion (not sure of the spelling of her last name). good luck finding more information. i would like to learn more as well.
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My name's Irasema too!
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My name too! I am from Mexico and was named after that same actress! But heard she was of Polish decent. When I went to college and took a philosophy class, I asked my professor for the meaning of “Irasema”
He brought back pages of notes!
It is from Christian missionaries who took it to Poland!
Ira is like the first part of “iradescence” light, celestial
Sema is “life force, like the word “semen”
It means “celestial body”
sadly, he kept the notes!
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