{"id":6487,"date":"1996-01-06T00:00:12","date_gmt":"1996-01-06T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:27:57","slug":"from-usenet-1696-0000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1996\/01\/06\/from-usenet-1696-0000\/","title":{"rendered":"[From Usenet: 1.6.96 0000]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17163,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/groups.google.com\\\/group\\\/alt.fan.eddings\\\/browse_thread\\\/thread\\\/57b4afcbf68ece1b?hl=en&amp;q=woody%40alaska.net&amp;safe=images#38ceee440737137b&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/groups.google.com\\\/g\\\/alt.fan.eddings\\\/c\\\/V7Svy_aOzhs?hl=en&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>[Note: This was originally a post to the <code>alt.fan.eddings<\/code> Usenet newsgroup. I\u2019m including it here for completeness. Originally archived <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.fan.eddings\/browse_thread\/thread\/57b4afcbf68ece1b?hl=en&amp;q=woody%40alaska.net&amp;safe=images#38ceee440737137b\" title=\"Google Groups: alt.fan.eddings: Polgara's Name\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>Justin Hall wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Is it possible that Beldaran was born with that name? Did Polgara formerly used to be known as Gara? I&#8217;m not sure about this, so any input is desired. The BEL&#8217;s on all the men seemed to be &#8216;tacked&#8217; on at some later point. Did Beldaran, Poledra, and Polgara ever have previous names? I mean, is there really a law that prevents the use of Bel-something on anyone but Aldur&#8217;s disciples?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay&#8230;just read this last night, so dug up the passage, as I remembered this discussion while I was reading&#8230;. From the hardbound edition of the first three books of the Belgariad, pg. 514 (Magician&#8217;s Gambit, near the end of Chapter Ten).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The old sorcerer put his arm around the boy&#8217;s shoulders. &#8220;I thought you might see things that way, Belgarion. You&#8217;re bound to this the same way we all are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  The strange thrill he always felt at the sound of his other, secret name ran through Garion. &#8220;Why do you all insist on calling me that?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Belgarion?&#8221; Wolf said mildly. &#8220;Think, boy. Think what it means. I haven&#8217;t been talking to you and telling you stories all these years just because I like the sound of my own voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Garion turned it over carefully in his mind. &#8220;You were Garath,&#8221; he mused thoughtfully, &#8220;but the God Aldur changed your name to Belgarath. Zedar was Zedar first and then Belzedar &#8212; and then he went back to being Zedar again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;And in my old tribe, Polgara would have just been Gara. Pol is like Bel. The only difference is that she&#8217;s a woman. Her name comes from mine &#8212; because she&#8217;s my daughter. Your name comes from mine, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Garion &#8212; Garath,&#8221; the boy said. &#8220;Belgarath &#8212; Belgarion. It all fits together, doesn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Naturally,&#8221; the old man replied. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad you noticed it.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, this doesn&#8217;t really address Beldaran or Poledra, or many of the<br \/>\nothers, but it does shed some light on Polgara&#8217;s name&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay&#8230;just read this last night, so dug up the passage, as I remembered this discussion while I was reading&#8230;. From the hardbound edition of the first three books of the Belgariad, pg. 514 (Magician&#8217;s Gambit, near the end of Chapter Ten).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2033,2036],"tags":[1800,1367,2772,1786,1787,255],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-the-blog","category-books","tag-alt-fan-eddings","tag-david-eddings","tag-from-usenet","tag-imported","tag-preblog","tag-usenet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}