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[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

Today while I was waiting for my tire to be fixed, I was flipping through a magazine and came across a family with the following sib set:

Ishtar (f)
Ashur (m)
Aturina (f)
Nineveh (f)



Personally, I think they're all extremely ugly names. What makes it even more confusing is that, although Dad wasn't in the picture...mom and all the kids looked very much Caucasian, so I can't even dismiss it as being cultural names.


EDIT Thanks to google, I was able to find the following:

Ishtar is the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna
Ashur, the main god of Assyrian mythology
Nineveh was an important city in ancient Assyria

So, the only name I can't fit into the "theme" is Aturina

Comments

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Ashur looks like a kr8yv spelling of Asher, so I highly doubt they're cultural names.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

Look at my edit, I was able to find a semi-common thread to three of the names. It seems Ashur ISN'T just a kr8tv spelling of Asher.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

Asher is also not a Christian name.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

It's a Jewish name, is it not?

[djador.livejournal.com]

I don't hate Ashur. The rest.. well if it was cultural (their culture, not just a random one) than I would understand. But otherwise, it's a little odd.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info, that was the only one not coming up on a search engine. I guess it's possible that it has to do with their culture, then. Even still, I'm not that fond of the names.

[traezer.livejournal.com]

Even if its cultural, its seems like they are trying to hard.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

If Nineveh is pronounced Nee-neh-fay then I think it's pretty =)

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Nope, it isn't. Try Ni-NUH-vuh.

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

I like the historical significance behind most of the names, and absolutely love Nineveh (although I wouldn't use it. There's also a town by that name in NY state..)I don't think I'd use any of them

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

Any time I see the word "Ishtar," all I can think of is Tommy Pickles shouting, "REPTARRRR!"

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

I like Ishtar, although I think it's a bit too OTT for me to ever use.