name for a Shaman type character?

[Ragdoll]

Did a websearch to see if Jewish traditions even had shamans and found it does. Got an idea from the Mentalist that takes one from the team thread.

 

Wanted to give this hero a name in Yiddish, but don't really know the language, and not really sure what the name would be. The shaman character's going to be about protection and boltering of others. Possibly healing. The bit on the web I read about Jewish Shamans says they're about healing guidance and service, so that sounds good with what I'm trying to achieve.

 

So anyone care to offer up anything?

[ghost-angel]

Re: name for a Shaman type character?

 

from 20000names.com Male Yiddish Names and Female Yiddish Names.

[Ragdoll]

Re: name for a Shaman type character?

 

from 20000names.com Male Yiddish Names and Female Yiddish Names.

 

Ah, much appreciated, this will help with the shaman's civilian name.

 

But I was thinking more along the lines of a code name, perhaps?

[DEFCON Clown]

Re: name for a Shaman type character?

 

Geist Opetropus (Spirit Guardian)

 

Ruach Baschizer (Ghost Protector)

 

If you want to find your own try here.

http://www.ectaco.co.uk/English-Yiddish-Dictionary/

 

PS: The CLOWN likes your title, Ragdoll.

 

[GoldenAge]

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Call him 7 (yup, seven)

 

Why? ---

 

Seven: The most sacred number. The origin of its sacredness is found by some in its factors three and four; by others, in its correspondence to the number of the planets; while others assert that it arose from a sacred six by the addition of one. In Judaism its sacredness was enhanced by the institution of the Sabbath. The number occurs in the seven days of Creation, the institution of the seventh year of release, the forty-nine years between the jubilees, the seven altars, the seven lamps, the sprinkling of the blood seven times, etc. (Gen. vii. 2 et seq., xxi. 28-30; I Kings xviii. 43; Deut. xvi. 9; Ezek. xl. 22, xli. 3; et al.). Quite frequently it is met with in Apocryphal literature (Ethiopic Enoch, xxi. 3-6, lxxiii. 5-8; Slavonic Enoch, iii.-xx., xxvii. 3, xli. 1; et al.); in Talmud and Midrash (Pes. 54a; Soṭah 10b; et al.; comp. Lampronti, "Paḥad Yiẓḥaḳ," s.v. ). The multiple fourteen occurs in Proverbs Rabbah (ed. Buber, p. 92).

 

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=366&letter=N

[Gawain]

Re: name for a Shaman type character?

 

I once had a Shadowrun character, a street mage, whose street name was "Reb Tzaddik." "Tzaddik" is a Yiddish word meaning wonderworker.

[Vanguard00]

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I once had a Shadowrun character' date=' a street mage, whose street name was "Reb Tzaddik." "Tzaddik" is a Yiddish word meaning wonderworker.[/quote']

Rebbe is the Yiddish (or maybe Hebrew) of shaman (a Blesser/Healer/Spiritual Guide) in the same tradition as Native American shamans and medicine men.

 

Baal Shem is Hebrew for "Master of the Name".

 

Derech means "guide".

 

Hmm...you need to get Von D-Man over here. He'll be able to help with this.

[Vanguard00]

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Here is a glossary, in case it proves useful

[Egyptoid]

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West Wind

 

Shiloh

[Dr. MID-Nite]

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Spiritwalker

[Lord Liaden]

Re: name for a Shaman type character?

 

Hmm...you need to get Von D-Man over here. He'll be able to help with this.

 

Second that recommendation. The man seriously studies these traditions. You might trying PMing him - even if he sees this thread, he may not pick up on your specific interest from the title.