Just Another Day

November 28, 2020, Saturday

What's in a name?

These days when I make a new character I do an internet search to make sure it's not already a real name or real word that may have negative connotations. Search engines still had a long way to go in 2004 and I never bothered checking Kanta's name. Fellatio, eh? Alternatively, as a name, Sanskrit for "desired, beautiful, lovely", and a name for Lord Vishnu, the Preserver. Shanku, as mentioned, can be "arrow", "dart", or "Lord Shiva, The Destroyer", or a zillion other things along similar lines. I am intrigued that when I tried making up names I twice landed the lead character in India. Heh, Shanku, the Destroyer, always stirring up trouble, and then there's Kanta, the Preserver, trying to save his home... and dignity.

* edit 2024-05-20 *

Okay, upon closer inspection on the back of the original drawing, it was June eighteenth, not the eighth. But, hey, she's still technically a Gemini.