Names

My mum wanted to call me Iesus, but my father died before I was born, so I got his name.

My mum is a believer, she is religious, mystical, romantic, a conspiracy theorist, she is spiritual. The names of my siblings represent the various phases of my mother spirituality during the years.

My oldest sister got the name of the sad queen of Persia, who was repudiated by the Shah because of her apparent infertility. Pop-romantic phase.

Two of my brothers got the names of two of the main Hindu deities. One of these names my mum used it already for a dog, who died before my brother was born. Hindu phase.

The name of my youngest brother comes from the Bible. Coming back to Catholicism.

The youngest of my siblings is the only one to have two names, my mum and her husband were already in a crisis (they separated few years later) and they chose a name each. One of them is the name of the most known Queen of Egypt and the other one is the name of a really famous Italian porn star. Closing the circle, back to pop romanticism.