Do you have a favorite Roman god?
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Even closer: Martin ; )I don't think I know your name... Is it Mark?
Martinus... From what period is it? Medieval?
From what period is it? Medieval?
St. Martin was a late Western Roman Empire soldier (the legend says he went on a white horse) who parted/divided his cloak to give some clothes to a semi-naked freezing beggar.
In the Czech Republic my/Martin's name day is celebrated on the 11/11 and it is said that on day Martin may come on his white horse = which means it will snow (or vice versa, if it snowed, Martin came on his white horse), people bug me with the horse every year, seriously. Also St. Martin's wine is drunk and St. Martin's goose eaten
(we don't observe these traditions in our family)
In my little town, there's been a fake Roman soldier riding on that day on a white horse in the last few years...
The Czech pronunciation palatalizes the "t" before "i" and it thus becomes a palatal voiceless stop. In other position we use this the ť letter for this sound.
I'm named after my father
In the Czech Republic my/Martin's name day is celebrated on the 11/11 and it is said that on day Martin may come on his white horse = which means it will snow (or vice versa, if it snowed, Martin came on his white horse), people bug me with the horse every year, seriously. Also St. Martin's wine is drunk and St. Martin's goose eaten
(we don't observe these traditions in our family)In my little town, there's been a fake Roman soldier riding on that day on a white horse in the last few years...
The Czech pronunciation palatalizes the "t" before "i" and it thus becomes a palatal voiceless stop. In other position we use this the ť letter for this sound.
I'm named after my father
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In Germany, when we were young, we used to gather with paper lanterns with a candle inside and walk around as a group in the evening on St. Martin's Day while singing songs about lanterns ... and we were obviously told the story with that coat.
I don't know why we did that, but the tradition still seems to exist. It even has a wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laternelaufen
I've never heard it called "Laternelaufen", though. We called it "Lampionumzug".
I don't know why we did that, but the tradition still seems to exist. It even has a wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laternelaufen
I've never heard it called "Laternelaufen", though. We called it "Lampionumzug".
What's his name?I'm named after my father
That's very nice! Never heard of this one... Thanks for that story!
Identical to mine, both name and surname...
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I hated it, though. For one thing, some of the other children seemed to have much nicer lanterns than I did ... for another, I was too dumb to hold the bloody lantern straight, so my candle usually fell over and burned the thing ... and then I was the only kid without a functioning lantern.
Cool! So you're Martin Junior.
Carolus Darwinius, also called "Lux Pater", shedder of light in dark places, for sure! He is closely followed by Rickhardus Dawkinsis, chastiser of the ignorants...
In a more serious vein , I would have to choose Janus, a relic of the time before the Greek anthropomorphising imperative insinuated its way into Italian theology, since I love new beginnings and adventures of diverse kinds.
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Wouldn't it be brilliant to turn Dawkins into a god, the god of atheism.
Make him "Divus Cultus Nostri", perhaps?
He might have to form a triumvirate with Hitchens and Dennett, and then we must make M'Lord Russell the "Divus Primarius", and Dawkins, Hitchens, and Dennett could then all be "jealous gods".
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