My New iPod Needs a Name
April 27, 2013 4:24 PM   Subscribe

After years of loyal service, my constant companion, the iPod, gave up the ghost. I just received my replacement today, and before I can use it, I have to give it an appropriate name. Bizarrely specific guidelines inside.

My last iPod was named Hierophant, (noun - a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy.
1. (in ancient Greece) an official high priest of religious mysteries
2. a person who interprets and explains esoteric mysteries), and I would like the new name to be along those lines, but I'm coming up short. Please help!

When I think of what I want the name to be, these words come to mind: mystic, ancient, vaguely dark, possibly religious, obscure, mythological, Greek, Latin, Egyptian, archive, profane, secret, powerful.

Feel free to pick and choose any combination of those, or don't if you can come up with something more fitting. I would really appreciate it! Thank you!

P.S. If it's a cool word in another language, that works too!
posted by Krazor to Writing & Language (15 answers total)
 
Best answer: Apollo was the god of music, as well as prophesies, healing, and light.

Other suggestions: Oracle, Osiris, Isis, Shaman, Pandora
posted by QryHavoq at 4:31 PM on April 27, 2013


Best answer: Sarawati
posted by Mittenz at 4:34 PM on April 27, 2013


Olidammara
posted by El Sabor Asiatico at 4:38 PM on April 27, 2013




Best answer: the Bārûtu is a Mesopotamian set of tablets that describe the preparation steps and various possible divinations for someone who will read signs and portents in various animal entrails.
posted by elizardbits at 4:45 PM on April 27, 2013 [2 favorites]


Trismegistos!! Obviously.
posted by waxbanks at 4:54 PM on April 27, 2013


Pythia, for the oracle at Delphi?
posted by mlle valentine at 4:54 PM on April 27, 2013


In no particular order: Metatron, Melinoë, Palimpsest, Ammit, Apocrypha, Omphalos, Ninkilim
posted by mumkin at 4:58 PM on April 27, 2013


Deux. Pronounced "DAY-uhks".
posted by amtho at 5:02 PM on April 27, 2013


Best answer: Hetaera
posted by vers at 5:04 PM on April 27, 2013


Best answer: Oh! Psychopomp would be close to the spirit of your old iPod's name. Not sure it has quite the mysterious gravitas, though.
posted by mumkin at 5:04 PM on April 27, 2013 [1 favorite]


How about Genius?
posted by faineant at 5:10 PM on April 27, 2013


Response by poster: Outstanding! Thank you so much for your suggestions! The issue now will be choosing just one! Don't know where I'd be without you.
posted by Krazor at 5:31 PM on April 27, 2013


Titanic. You can sync it everyday.
posted by jeffmilner at 5:40 PM on April 27, 2013 [10 favorites]


Magus.
posted by alms at 9:21 PM on April 27, 2013


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