Subject: [FFML] Re: [Sailor Moon] [AU] Alternate Views 01
From: Bert Miller
Date: 11/19/2003, 12:26 AM
To: goodwin
CC: ffml@anifics.com
Reply-to:
hkmiller@theeddy.com


Quoting goodwin <flipper123@optushome.com.au>:

I always assumed that they were elsewhere
doing the same as Jaedite was doing in Japan.

Reasonable solution.

I might ever want to marry, is you, Phoebe."

I thought that an odd choice for Mar's old name,
given its lunar associations.  Especially
with "Aphrodite" for Minako, why not "Aries" (or a
feminization thereof: "Ariana")?

Phoebe would be a feminine form of Phobos, 

Except it's not.  If "Phoebe" were a feminine form of
anything, it would be "Phoebus", as in Apollo, meaning
that the feminine would be Artemis.  Seriously, I did a
google "define:Phoebe" before I posted, just to double
check, and Phoebe can up with multiple references as a
goddess or titaness later identified with Artemis.

Actually, Alan's response to my post hinted at a better
solution, looking for a Greek war goddess.  While she's
not explicitly a goddess of war, there is one and only
one leading candidate here:  Athena.  (And no smart
remarks about Sailor Moon Z!)

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