Tolkien obviously took this to an extraordinary length, but other authors do this as well, giving their world a richness that you can't replicate with a random sound generator. So your culture has its own linguistics and should name their evil things in a consistent way, or there should be a reason why the demon name suddenly deviates from the way everything else is named. But the root words all have a place in our language. So we would give it a nickname like "Giant Black Spider Thing" or even fancy it up with "Arachnodaemon". Americans, for example, are probably not going to suddenly name something "eyfyt'wqfry", even if we are attempting to phonetically spell out a sound like that, because our language has rules and structure, plus we can't form or write down all the possible sounds even a human can produce, much less a demon. You can decide to run down the rabbit hole of language, naming, and internally consistent sounds. Is this the name folks have given it, or it's own name in it's own language? A lot of those weird consonant mash-up names are intended, I think, to phonetically represent how a spiderdemon might actually sound, so maybe a name that sounds like a sort of a buzzing hiss (do spiders have any capability to make sounds? Maybe by rubbing their legs together or plucking a thread of web?) would suffice.īut PEOPLE will give it a human name, or perhaps a distorted version of the name in an earlier language (Satan derived from Shaitan/Shatan, for example, which was probably just a generic noun, not a proper name). Very much the mean girl in a middle school clique. Plotter, schemer, likes to entangle people in plots. But it did give me the idea for the origin of Achrya, which came years after I first wrote about her. A nice little protective cocoon, with a beetle larva. Entirely too SFnal! Unscrewed the cover from the receiver-and sure enough. Then one day I looked closely at the phone right after taking it away from my ear, and there were the mandibles of something sticking out one of the little holes. Berberoka (Filipino origin) was the name of an evil mythical swamp demon in the folklore of the. Batibat (Tagalog origin) meaning 'nightmare' is a vengeful female demon from the Filipino culture. Aswang (Filipino origin) is a female vampiric demon spirit. I thought it was an ant, and kept brushing my ear to get the (nonexistent) ant off. Ardat Lili (Sumerian origin) was a succubus and demoness from ancient Sumeria. Incidentally, I once had the webspinning larva of a beetle in my telephone receiver without realizing why my ear would start feeling bitten when I was on the phone. My spider-demoness is named Achrya, but she started life as a web-spinning larva of a beetle, munching away on stored grain.a minor nasty, but people will worship anything in a pinch, and worship gives power.at least to the minor deities.
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