Egyptian Dog Names, Names Of Egyptian Origin

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• Isis Dog Names: The Four-Thousand-Year-Old Egyptian Goddess Whose Name Was Hijacked in 2014, and Whether You Can Still Use It

  Isis is, in the database and in the historical record, the great mother goddess of ancient Egypt -- her Egyptian name was Iset, the throne, and her worship is documented from roughly 2400 BCE through to the closing of her last temple at Philae in 537 CE, a span of nearly three thousand continuous years. Then, in the summer of 2014, a militant group operating in Iraq and Syria adopted the English acronym ISIS as its name, and within twelve months the goddess's name had become unsayable in most American kindergartens. This tip is the honest version of the dog-name question that follows. It walks through who the goddess actually was (her marriage to Osiris, her recovery of his murdered body, her raising of the falcon-headed Horus), traces the etymology of Iset back through the hieroglyphic determinative, surveys the real numerical collapse and partial recovery the name has shown in American baby-name data since 2014, and lays out the small practical accommodations a dog called Isis still requires at the park and the vet. It closes with the broader Egyptian-pantheon names a dog owner can reach for if Isis itself feels too charged -- Anubis, Horus, Hathor, Cleopatra, Nefertiti, Ramses -- and with the case for using the name anyway. Mostly the case for using it.

• 50 Egyptian Dog Names Inspired By Mythology Gods And Goddesses

  Ancient Egypt packed thousands of years of recorded history and an enormous pantheon of gods and goddesses for nearly every situation. This tip turns that mythology into fifty dog names. Boys get picks like Amun, the man with wind, and Anubis, god of the dead, embalming, funerals, and mourning ceremonies, alongside Jackal and other male deities. Each entry carries divine domain and meaning. Perfect for pups whose noble bearing suits royal, mystical naming. If the pyramids, hieroglyphs, and Nile mystique fascinate you, one of these ancient-Egyptian monikers gives your boy or girl pup a name older than almost anything else.