TM Prompt #338: Tell the story behind your name (or nickname).
My name is Illyana Nikolievna Rasputina.
Nikolievna is a family name. My brothers were Nikolaievitchs. We were all three named for our father, Nikolai, for all these names are the equivalent of the English 'Nicholas.' It is tradition, especially in my case since as a girl it was assumed one day I would no longer bear the name 'Rasputin' as I would be married. Nikolievna ensures I will always remember the face of my father.
This is an important thing.
'Rasputin' is not an uncommon surname in Russia. There are many, and the vast majority have no connection to the so-called Mad Monk, much as I am sure there are many Lincolns in America who are in no way related to the murdered president. Having said that... the Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was my great-grandfather. The same blood that was beaten, shot, and stabbed out of this man flows through my veins. Mystic, healer, pervert, charlatan, magician. He was my kin.
So, no, do not play me Boney M records.
My given name, I confess, I never bothered to ask what it means. So I have just looked it up, and apparently it comes from the Greek. It means "light; God has answered me."
Light. Of course. Oh, Mike. If you were here you would be laughing. For as long as I have known that reckless, stupid shaman he has called me "little light." That is not such a bad nickname to have, I suppose, although I find it to be very sarcastic. And God answering is even less likely.
My codename is Magik. I am sometimes asked why the K and not a C, with some assuming it is because English is not being my first language. If I bother to respond, I tell people it is a joke concerning the extra K as seen in the writing of John Dee, and popularised by Crowley. I say that K is 11, and 11 is my number, the number of the Qlipoth.
...they never get the joke.
My brother Piotr always called me Snowflake.
Nikolievna is a family name. My brothers were Nikolaievitchs. We were all three named for our father, Nikolai, for all these names are the equivalent of the English 'Nicholas.' It is tradition, especially in my case since as a girl it was assumed one day I would no longer bear the name 'Rasputin' as I would be married. Nikolievna ensures I will always remember the face of my father.
This is an important thing.
'Rasputin' is not an uncommon surname in Russia. There are many, and the vast majority have no connection to the so-called Mad Monk, much as I am sure there are many Lincolns in America who are in no way related to the murdered president. Having said that... the Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was my great-grandfather. The same blood that was beaten, shot, and stabbed out of this man flows through my veins. Mystic, healer, pervert, charlatan, magician. He was my kin.
So, no, do not play me Boney M records.
My given name, I confess, I never bothered to ask what it means. So I have just looked it up, and apparently it comes from the Greek. It means "light; God has answered me."
Light. Of course. Oh, Mike. If you were here you would be laughing. For as long as I have known that reckless, stupid shaman he has called me "little light." That is not such a bad nickname to have, I suppose, although I find it to be very sarcastic. And God answering is even less likely.
My codename is Magik. I am sometimes asked why the K and not a C, with some assuming it is because English is not being my first language. If I bother to respond, I tell people it is a joke concerning the extra K as seen in the writing of John Dee, and popularised by Crowley. I say that K is 11, and 11 is my number, the number of the Qlipoth.
...they never get the joke.
My brother Piotr always called me Snowflake.