![]() Roxane (f) - Greek from either Persian or Bactrian, “dawn” + Roxanna, Romanian Ruxandra, Italian Rossana and others. Ravi (m) - Sanskrit “sun” the Hindu god of the sun + Ravindra (m “lord of the sun”). Photine (f) - Greek “light” + modern Greek Foteini. Pele (f) - unclear etymology the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes and fire. Or (f, m) - Hebrew “light” + Ora (f), Ori (f, m “my light”) + Lior (m), Liora (f), “light for me”. Lugus (m) - Celtic “light” the Gaulish god of commerce and craftsmanship, equated with Mercury + Irish Lugh, Welsh Lleu, Llew. Lucia (f) - Latin “light” + Lucy (f), Lucinda (f), Lucien (m), Lucius (m) and others. ![]() Lucasta (f) - created by the poet Richard Lovelace for Lucasta (1649) based on Latin lux casta, “pure light”. Inti (m) - Quechua “sun” the Inca god of the sun. Ignatius (m) - Latin from Etruscan “fiery”. Hestia (f) - Greek “hearth”, “fireside” the Greek goddess of the hearth, home and family + Vesta is the Roman cognate. Helios (m) - Greek “sun” the Greek sun god + Latin Aelius (m), Aelia (f) and Italian Elio (m). Heliodoro (m) - Greek “sun gift” + Italian Eliodoro. from helene, “torch” + Elena, Elin, Eleni, Ilona and others. “bright” Gaulish solar god, equated with Apollo + Llywelyn (m) is a Welsh compound name derived of the names of Belenus and the god Lugus (see below).īrighid (f) - Irish “exalted one” the Irish goddess of fire, poetry and wisdom + anglicized Bridget, diminutive Bedelia and others.Ĭináed (m) - Irish “born of fire” + anglicized Kenneth.ĭian (f, m) - Javanese (Indonesian) “candle”.Įguzki (m) - Basque “sun” + feminine Eguzkiñe.Įos (f) - Greek “dawn” the Greek goddess of the dawn.įioralba (f) - Italian “flower of the dawn”. Indo-European apelo “strength” or Greek “father light” the Greek god of prophesy, medicine, art, law, beauty and wisdom, and later the god of the sun and light + Apollon (m), Apollinaire (m), Apolline (f) and others.Īurora (f) - Latin “dawn” the Roman goddess of the morning.Īvtandil (m) - “sunshine heart” created by Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli for The Knight in the Panther's Skin based on Persian aftab, “sunshine”, and dil, “heart”.īelenus (m) - Celtic, prob. ![]() An unprecedented range of scholars and methodologies is intended to lead to an extensive Elements library which offers a nuanced understanding of magical cultures, from prehistory to the present.Agni (m) - Sanskrit “fire” the ancient Hindu fire god.Īlba (f) - Italian, Spanish and Catalan “dawn”.Īnatolius (m) - Greek “sunrise” + Anatole (m), Anatolia (f).Īodh (m) - from old Irish name Áed, “fire” + diminutive Aodhan, anglicized form Aidan.Īpollo (m) - prob. ![]() Understood as a continuing and potent force within global civilisation, magic is imaginatively approached here as a cluster of activities, attitudes, beliefs and motivations which include topics such as alchemy, astrology, divination, exorcism, the fantastical, folklore, haunting, supernatural creatures, necromancy, ritual, spirit possession and witchcraft. That magic can denote and include different things in differing disciplines and contexts is part of its cultural meaning and significance, and the series will embrace this diversity in both its contributions and its contributors. Elements in Magic intends to expand the purview of magical studies so as to reflect the exciting new work that is now being done across, but also beyond, the fields of in which it is already a recognisable component. Without studying this magical propensity and its implications, we understand only part of the whole human experience. Thinking with magic has been integral to people’s activity for millennia, and continues to be so across many fields of thought and action. Elements in Magic aims to restore the study of magic, broadly defined, to a central place within culture: one which it occupied for many centuries before being set apart by changing discourses of rationality and meaning. ![]()
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