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Epona's name origin
While I was looking through some Classical Roman stories for my latin class, I found that the name Epona was the Roman name for a Celtic goddess of horses. Translated, "Epona" means "the great mare".
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Re: Epona's name origin
So, her name means "horse". How creative Nintendo can be sometimes just amazes me.
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Re: Epona's name origin
I read somewhwere that Zelda means 'woman warrior', but cannot provide a source for this because I can't remember where I read it. Sorry.
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Re: Epona's name origin
She's also the celtic goddess of donkeys and mules.
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Re: Epona's name origin
Why would an Eastern company use a Western language to name its characrters? I never thought that Latin was that big in Japan...
Or did localazation give the horse the name Epona when they translated?
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Re: Epona's name origin
Ya, I knew Epona was a Celtic god of Horses and horse cousins such as donkey etc. I came across this when I was studying Ancient Celts in school last year, Once I found out I was amazed. Glad to know this info can be shared through out all Zelda fans.
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02-24-2006, 07:28 PM
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Re: Epona's name origin
Once again, this proves that Nintendo pays attention to the little details
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Re: Epona's name origin
has anyone heard of Brian Froud? he writes alot of books about faeries (this is the proper way to spell fairy btw >.<)....and im pretty sure in one of his books i saw symbols that looked kinda like the triforce and there were alot of eye symbols that looked like the sheikah eye...and i think he mentioned that there was a horse faerie named epona....well idk i think maybe to him, faeries and godesses are kinda the same
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02-24-2006, 10:27 PM
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