New Stage Name
Practice name, Woo name... something along those lines.
I've been told by a trusted source, that I'm just not a "sammy" kind of person. It apparently doesn't suit me, though I haven't gotten into much detail about why not (though I've debated maybe because in other terminology that person uses, perhaps because I don't seem like that much of a smart ass on the surface? lol)
So I've been giving serious thought to new names...but within the bounds of...not really being identified as to what my role with the gods really is.
I know in a bizarre sort of way I've been claimed by Odin...but not in any clearly identifiable way. Most people apparently don't get a choice, or don't seem to have one. Me, being the anti-authoritarian person that I am, don't take orders very well. At least not orders that I don't understand the reason behind, and certainly not orders that directly conflict (on a permanent level) with what I have in mind for my life. I much prefer to bargain and stretch the limits within the confines presented to me.
With that in mind, I went reading the Dictionary of Northern Mythology by Rudolf Simek, just to sort of kill some time, and I ran across a couple of names that caught my attention.
The first was Reginleif...which means "daughter of the gods".... and though it caught my eye, I just can't see me answering to Regin...it doesn't really gel with me, though I haven't shelved the idea completely. I like it because its more generalized to all the gods, and sort of bears in mind that I don't take well to dictatorial relationships... Even my BDSM relationships aren't quite at that level of oligarchy. I tend to look for tops or doms that will take care of me even as they control me....so there's still something in it for me, some level of ability to say "you've gone quite far enough thank you"... for now, until my trust levels are tested a few times, proving that the person in command is worthy of my trust, I still retain that last measure of control, even when I'm willing to give it up temporarily for the sake of the moment at hand.
The second one is a compilation of several names. My old norse is bad enough (single words here and there that usually have to be looked up, and very little understanding of the grammar and word structures) that I've probably totally butchered this. But here it is anyway.
Ulfurs is possessive of wolf... Wolf's
Geysa/Gessa is either "the forward streaming one" or "the cheeky one"...
Thrudr/Trud (as in Gertrude).... "woman of power" or nightmare.
All together being Ulfursgessatrud... officially if I kept it all in old norse it would be "Ulfursgeysathrudr" But i get the feeling there would be very few who could pronounce the whole thing together....
At any rate, given my thus far combative, or at the very least, not wholly accepting and mildly antagonistic relationship with my adopted mentor of a god....it amused and made me giggle to think of myself named, in effect, Odin's Cheeky Nightmare.
and of course, I could just be called Gessa for short....
Addendum: emailing with T, he mentioned the other name I once used, briefly. He asked me what Ulfurskona meant. It means Wolf's Woman. But to me, its more of a last name type of name. A paternal attachment.
That being the case, and since it does still fit... I could just use Geysathrudr/Gessatrud
In which case I'd be The Cheeky Nightmare Woman of the Wolf. Which still works out pretty well, and I could still be Gessa.