Brucifer Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 Teaser for ya....Geryon - Is it Ger-ee-on or Ger-yon?Ive wondered since early AD&D days...and where does the name Totentanz come from? does it mean anything or is it a complicated foreign version of "geoff"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delicious Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 It is german for death or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centipede Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 Geryon has taken his name from Dante's Divina Comedia. Before Dante borrowed it (or perhaps it was the church that did that) Geryon was a giant slain by Hercules (or possibly some other Greek hero). Obvously Gygax was too lazy to come up with names for the really bad guys and borrowed too.Totentanz means death dance, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brucifer Posted March 25, 2003 Author Share Posted March 25, 2003 oh right.kewl - so how do you pronounce the name then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delicious Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 I always thought that geryon was something like gi-ron.I could be worng.It has been known to hapen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLAGG Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Brucifer:and where does the name Totentanz come from? does it mean anything or is it a complicated foreign version of "geoff"?Here you go ... Totentanz means DANCE MACABRE.To break it down even more....Tote n tanzTote .... Two or more people that are dead.n .... is used to combine words togethertanz .... danceNow DANCE MACABRE ....Dance .... well everyone knows what that meansMacabre .... Main Entry: ma·ca·bre Pronunciation: m&-'käb; -'kä-br&, -b&r; -'käbr& Function: adjective Etymology: French, from (danse) macabre dance of death, from Middle French (danse de) Macabré Date: 1889 1 : having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death 2 : dwelling on the gruesome 3 : tending to produce horror in a beholderSo based on the above and talking with my German wife, it means ....a dance that people do to honor or celebrate the deadI hope this cleared up somethings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 Flagg, you be careful, okay? Thanks for the literary lesson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brucifer Posted March 26, 2003 Author Share Posted March 26, 2003 flagg - cheers ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLAGG Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Jager:Flagg, you be careful, okay? Thanks Jager!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 Hey, Flagg, try to stay safe. I'd like to see you back in full activity here in a year or two. Thanks for what you're doing. You're making sure us geeks can do what we do best.gherity@tcfreenet.orgIf you want to do the good old correspondence thing, there's my e-mail. I'm not sure if my account's behaving, but it still works from what I can gather.Whenever you want to shoot the breeze, feel free. ^.^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brucifer Posted March 31, 2003 Author Share Posted March 31, 2003 ok - so Totentanz means deathdancer, and geryon is an underworld demon.....would it be fair to say that caestus pax is sword/fist of peace?also if theres any other bizarre names that people have heard of then tell us what they mean dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meridian Posted March 31, 2003 Share Posted March 31, 2003 Try Gauntlet of Peace for Pax, though they misspelled caestus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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