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Post by UltraViolet Light on Mar 26, 2006 13:09:00 GMT -5
Violet Song jat Shariff
what does "Song jat" mean?
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Post by mattslade on Apr 29, 2007 13:23:47 GMT -5
I think Song is just a Chinese influence name, but not sure what jat means. Kind of looks like "de" as it's not got the capital letter at the begining... hmmm interesting!
Matt x
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Post by Aedh on Apr 29, 2007 19:25:05 GMT -5
My theory is ...
Violet = obvious English, from the flower. The flower symbolises faithfulness, humility, and chastity.
Song = Chinese dynasty noted for cultural achievement, city life, and a time when women were relatively empowered. It fell to the Mongol hordes, and its memory is slightly bittersweet in Chinese memory.
Jat = a tribe in Nothern India and Pakistan, noted for their skills at war, and for their reliability, honour, self-sufficiency, toughness, and resiliency. They were heavily recruited by the British for the Indian Army.
This so far would be (symbolically) her actual name. To which is added a title: Sharif = Arab designation, indicating the main protector of the tribe and its property and lands. (traditionally, also, one desended from the martyr Husain, carrying a whiff of nobility.)
The overall effect of the names blended together creates the image of a woman who is cultured, noble, and intelligent; physically strong and resilient (yet sexually restrained); a shrewd--and at times, fierce--fighter and protector, especially of seemingly doomed causes, to which she would be faithful to the extreme, having a foreboding shadow of her own over her. This is pretty much an archetypal warrior-woman's name. I think it matches the character pretty well; I don't believe I could have designed a better one. (It can't be an accident that Milla also has the role of Joan of Arc under her belt ... there are pronounced similarities.)
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Post by phughes on Jan 9, 2008 21:44:01 GMT -5
"Clockwork Orange" influence? When the droogs--the psychopathic youth of the future--get into a mood for mayhem, their leader, Alex, opines "Let's have some of that good old ultraviolet," which in the bastardized language of the future is ultra-violence. The tempting relation to the Wimmer movie may be accidental, gratuitous, but it does tease thought.
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Post by Aedh on Jan 10, 2008 15:14:16 GMT -5
Good thought ... and welcome to the boards phughes! Make yourself at home, cleric ... your locker is over there, next to the Prozium locker.
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