dancing with eli

a new name  for our exciting adventure! great! I love playing with words and names,  usernames, avatars, my old legal name susanna, oisue-lyre (from oiseau-lyre pronounced wasoleer = lyrebird in french), angel child susani, blissful susananda, sue si, etc. etc. all possible variations of that lily name..... my su-girls for my su-theater sketches, su in sanskrit meaning good, well...  :-) 

but it might take me a while to find a new one, I thought. the only thing I knew immediately: I want the sound to be short, simple, limpid, gender neutral,
(okay, I know that ELI is mostly a male hebrew name, but it is also used by women, for instance as short from names like helena, eliane, elisa, elisabeth, my second and never activated legal name.... ) 
gentle, even sweet ...
 
meli, the greek word for honey? oh no! this is too much of my new website melipotamou! but perhaps something in greek, yes, I love the wonderful greek language.... we'll see, no hurry, just relax, breathe and let it come... 
and suddenly, surely in association with meli, there was
ELI !
yes,  yes! 

delighted by this resonance in me I remembered that already a long time ago I had been charmed by the name of eli(s) in a poem by the austrian poet georg trakl (see below) surrounded by evocative words like silvery, hyacinthen, crystalline, in a slightly morbid, decadent but beautiful and silent ambient landscape. the beauty of melancholy... familiar, so far away and yet so close to our present transitional time where the old is dying for allowing the new energies to come in.....
ELI, ELI,
yes!!!

hey, no rush! before announcing this new name in our house, let's give a chance to other names emerging from within ! 
but no way!
EEEEELIIII, EEEEELIIII singing and ringing like an echo throughout my space and drowning any other attempt ...

later on I went searching for ELI and found a great lot of utilizations and explanations. from american cities, irish kingdoms to gods, father of all gods, apocalyptic film, acronyms, nearly everything, quite overwhelming... but  I AM GOD also, yeah,  yeah  (yoham)!

one of the acronyms (of an existing project) I like best is:

E   xtreme 
               L   ight 
                         I    nfrastructure

and what about

E   ntertaining
                 L   ol
                             I   nspiration

E   nthusiasm
L   ove
I    ntuition

E   nlightenment
                            L   aughter
                                             I   magination

E   levating
L   iberating
I    nsights

E   njoy
           L   eelaful
                           I   nterpretation

     eli -------------------------------------------------------------- eli
georg trakl

occident
else lasker-schüler with admiration
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moon, as if something dead  would step
from a blue cave,
and many blossoms fall
across the rock path.
silverly something sick  weeps
by the evening pond,
in a black boat
lovers have died crossing over.

or elis' footsteps
ring through the grove,
the hyacinth one
again dying off under oaks.
o the boy's figure
formed from crystalline tears,
nocturnal shadows.
jagged lightning illuminates the temple,
always cool,
when by the greening hill
the thunder of spring resounds.


 

abendland 



mond, als träte ein totes
aus blauer höhle,
und es fallen der blüten
viele über den felsenpfad.
silbern weint ein krankes
am abendweiher,
auf schwarzem kahn
hinüberstarben liebende.

oder es läuten die schritte
elis’ durch den hain
den  hyazinthenen
wieder verhallend unter eichen.
o des knaben gestalt
geformt aus kristallenen tränen,
nächtigen schatten.
zackige blitze erhellen die schläfe
die immerkühle,
wenn am grünenden hügel frühlingsgewitter ertönt.