[Sca-cooks] OT: Urtatim, was Cinnamon question

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Christianna wrote:
>P.S. Hey, Urtatim, this isn't the same name you posted on the Authenticity
>list a couple of days ago, is it?  What's up, you trying out a new name each
>day? :)

Lesse, i posted about a week ago and i signed it, "Urtatim". Maybe it 
just looks different when you aren't used to it.

I've been using Anahita most of the time i've been in the SCA, 
although i used my nom de subculture, Lilinah, on e-lists for the 
first few months. However, Anahita cannot be registered and i'd like 
to register my name and device.

A couple years ago a Maghribi name i liked was suggested to me, 
Subaytila, and since i go to Herald's meetings for commenting on 
LoIs, some folks began calling me that. Alas, when i did more 
extensive research, it turned out to be the name of a city, not a 
person, so it went away.

Then someone posted a list of 15th & 16th c. Persian women's names in 
the Academy of Saint Gabriel. Looking it over, i was drawn to Nihani. 
So i tried that out at our Heralds' meetings, but it just isn't "me".

In looking over, yet again, the list of Muslim names found in Spain 
in SCA-period, also on the Saint Gabriel website, i noticed about 5 
that were Berber/Amazight (which my persona's father is, at least in 
part), and of them Urtatim appealed most to me.

So I've been signing most of my e-mail with it for the past, uh, week 
or two, since it's registerable, Maghribi, and, dammit, people like 
me, uh, i mean, people need to call me that and i need to get used to 
people calling me that.

Now i just need to file the paperwork...

Urtatim, formerly Anahita
-- 
"The truth must be taken wherever it is to be found,
whether it be in the past or among strange peoples."
	-- al-Kindi, Baghdad (801-873)