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Help[Facts] Re: Help! What does it really mean?
in reply to a message by orchid
Strange! I checked some of the sites talking about KAIROS as a "goddess from Jupiter" or a "last born goddess". Most of it was babyname stuff, obviously one copying from the other.
Checking just "kairos" I came across books, music and a lot of religious stuff - but no real person by that name.
What makes me suspicious:
1. -os is the typical masculine ending in Greek. So a goddess by that name would be somewhat surprising. Kairos sounds male to me as a name.
2. Jupiter is Roman, whereas Kairos is Greek. I guess the Latin equivalent would be Momentum.
As a meaning for the Greek word my dictionary gives: right measure, right place, right time, opportunity, advantage, circumstances.
On the Greek god I found: God of opportunity and the right moment. His picture was often shown in wrestling schools. There was a statue by Lysippos (4th cent. BC) showing the god with winged shoes, curls in his forehead and a bald back of his head. We "take time by the forelock", but the ancient Greeks obviously were thinking of the "backlock".
So I would be careful with KAIROS as a female name.
Andy ;—)
Checking just "kairos" I came across books, music and a lot of religious stuff - but no real person by that name.
What makes me suspicious:
1. -os is the typical masculine ending in Greek. So a goddess by that name would be somewhat surprising. Kairos sounds male to me as a name.
2. Jupiter is Roman, whereas Kairos is Greek. I guess the Latin equivalent would be Momentum.
As a meaning for the Greek word my dictionary gives: right measure, right place, right time, opportunity, advantage, circumstances.
On the Greek god I found: God of opportunity and the right moment. His picture was often shown in wrestling schools. There was a statue by Lysippos (4th cent. BC) showing the god with winged shoes, curls in his forehead and a bald back of his head. We "take time by the forelock", but the ancient Greeks obviously were thinking of the "backlock".
So I would be careful with KAIROS as a female name.
Andy ;—)
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