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Help[Facts] Re: Origin of Werandra?
in reply to a message by Joel S.
I invented it, it came in a dream. It is a mixture of modern letters in the English language following a pronunciation pattern that's nodded to Gaelic. It in of itself is not Gaelic nor any other language but my own. English speakers sometimes have difficulty pronouncing it, but my Irish friend (born in Ireland, currently in America speaking English) had no difficulty upon reading it.
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Update, from WerandRa herself, two years later after some spiritual digging. While the name did indeed come to me in a dream with deep symbolic meaning, I was incorrect regarding the etymology of it. Due to connection with my Irish tynker heritage and limited linguistic knowledge, I incorrectly attributed it to mock Gaelic; an Irish friend of mine was one of the few people who pronounced it correctly upon seeing it written without hearing it, and conversation with her and our confirmation bias there on seemed solid enough to not question.
I am no etymology expert. Doing actual research after more spiritual experiences, I was led to the conclusion that it's meaning is "man and god", literally spelled out as "wer and ra". Wer (or "were"), the conjunction "and", followed by the name of the ancient Egyptian sun god, "Ra".
How these languages and cultures mesh is very arbitrary. It is indeed a "made up" name, but one with deep spiritual meaning.
I now capitalize the second R for several reasons of emphasis, but technically either capitalization is "correct" as far as I'm concerned.
I am no etymology expert. Doing actual research after more spiritual experiences, I was led to the conclusion that it's meaning is "man and god", literally spelled out as "wer and ra". Wer (or "were"), the conjunction "and", followed by the name of the ancient Egyptian sun god, "Ra".
How these languages and cultures mesh is very arbitrary. It is indeed a "made up" name, but one with deep spiritual meaning.
I now capitalize the second R for several reasons of emphasis, but technically either capitalization is "correct" as far as I'm concerned.
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