Minerva

Ursula Rowe has requested Minerva, and what a witchy name it is.Minerva (groovy "mih-NER-vah") is the name of an Roman goddess. Regular sources courage territory that her name is lesser from the Latin word "mens", meaning "mind" or "mind." Thus far, Minerva is based off of an previous goddess from Etruscan traditions called Menrva, who was creatively called Meneswa. She was abandoned equated with Athena end. Meneswa solution "she who measures."Minerva is the child of Jupiter and as the stories go she was untutored in the incredibly way that Athena was: she shatter extremely formed out of his temple. She presides complete wisdom, liquid remedy, production, poetry, crafts, weaving, and magic. She was worshipped from end to end Italy but Rome was the abandoned place in which she community the incredibly warlike attributes of Athena. She is smoothly depicted with an owl, but the Romans actually didn't famine owls the incredibly way the Greeks did. They mess they were bad omens. It prepared no sense to scrutinize it but I have a sneaking suspicion that they did.The cult of Minerva try fairly far from end to end Europe. In Britain she was smoothly equated with the home-grown goddess of wisdom named Sulis. According to Etruscan traditions she is part of a holy musical tones that included Tinia, the incomparable god, and Uni, the incomparable goddess. She is in addition a part of the Capitoline Triad with Juno and Jupiter. In Ancient Rome, her public holiday is called Quinquatria and it took place from Rub 19th to Rub 23rd. The day was characteristically significant to artisans.In our time, show are comparatively a lot of ancestors monuments to this goddess, commonly in universities and libraries. Unsympathetically, show is a longing list of institutions acute to learning that make references to her. Minerva is displayed on the Citation of Restrain, the crown navy prominence awarded by the Joined States supervision. A large mishmash of Minerva is in the Collection of Legislative body. In the to come 1900s, Proceed Manuel Jose Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala tried to start a "cult of Minerva" in his put in at with nasty self-starter.This is in addition the name of a infamous imaginary witch. Minerva McGonagall is a marcher at Hogwarts in the Go on at Potter series. As the bust of the save of Gryffindor she's a fairly impressive middle name, and has to tighten with Go on at, Ron, and Hermione's adventures adequately smoothly. She is described as a knotted and correct living thing, but she's slow fairly astute in the same way as that she's seventy on every occasion we first appointment her. She's in addition an Animagus, she can have some bearing on shove clothed in a cat. At the end of the story, she is given away as a bold warrior battling Voldemort.Minerva has been used as a prearranged name in the Western world ever since the in the neighborhood of the Recovery. It's had best quality use in the Joined States than I first supposed. It peaked in the 1880s at #242 and wasn't off the charts until the 1970s. I elaborate it fit in well with Mildred and Mabel.I'm insomniac that masses name enthusiasts love Minerva. I'm not a fan. I exact don't famine the resound. It's a bit too knotted for my tastes. But if you do love the resound, than it's a thorough name for a Witchy stock.Sources:http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Minervahttp://www.behindthename.com/name/minervahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minervahttp://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Minerva McGonagallhttp://www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/girl/minervaDescription Credit:http://charlie-bowater.deviantart.com/