AMAZON acronym

Sommerswerd

Sommerswerd

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One of the first orders of business is to decide what our AMAZON acronym will mean.

You will notice that the we have always used the word "AMAZON" to describe ourselves and that "AMAZON" has always been in caps.

The plural of "AMAZON" has always been AMAZONs with a lowercase "s" and we have not been referring to ourselves as "Amazonians."

This is why..."AMAZON" is an acronym... A.M.A.Z.O.N., ... and now we need to decide what each letter in it means... :confused:

It is a mystery that has elluded our wisest soothsayers and preistesses for generations, but now we will unravel this mystery together...:eek:

So reply to this thread with your suggestions/ideas/comments, and as with all things, we AMAZONs will decide with a vote, once all AMAZONs with ideas have come forward with their choices.:D
 
Amazing Mermaids After Zoink's Oval Nation

This marks the moment in time the nation of the AMAZON started. King Zoink has stolen the treasure of the happy nation of the Mermaids. At that moment, the Mermaids realized they needed to stay cheerfull, but also get organized in a nation and chase King Zoink back to his Oval Nation.
 
I think it should be a recursive acronym, for extra nerd-cred. ;D

Amazonian's Mighty And Z*** Order of N***

Yeah, the *** denote where I couldn't come up with something, feel free to suggest. ;)
 
So were gonna be like SANCTA? I don't think it should stand for anything. It's just the way were are, mysterious and unknown.
 
I agree with r20.

Especially when the acronym already exists and THEN you try to find the meaning. This gives rather strange result IMO.
 
Another idea:

A - Associated / Allied
M - Magnificent / Masterful / Mighty / Malevolent
A - Accolytes / Apostles -of the
Z - Zenobian
O - Omniscient / Omnipotent / Omnipresent
N - Nation

Zenobia was a Warrior Queen:queen:, who conquered Egypt and fought the Roman Empire.
Herbert_Schmalz-Zenobia.jpg

Zenobia famously wore golden chains in Aurelian's military triumph parade in Rome. She was eventually given an estate and became a prominent Roman matron. Notice the Wrist Bracers (like Diana) and the Golden Chain in the picture above.

IMHO this is a ringer! Perhaps the mystery has finally been unraveled. The Golden Ropes that Diana gives us at our induction cerominies are actually a symbol of the golden chains worn by our Matron Saint, the Warrior Queen Zenobia.

We can choose which word to use for the other letters (I listed a few possibilities). What do AMAZONs think about this?:D
 
I like Sommerswerd's first concept with the added change which incorporates nabaxo's idea of a recursive acronym.

AMAZON stands for:

AMAZON Maidens Against Zeus's Other Nations.

Now what the other AMAZON stands for is still unclear. Perhaps we'll find out in time.

But I agree that Zenobia is worthy of our tribe. She should definitely get a city or unit named after her.

Those are my thoughts.
 
I still think it shouldn't stand for anything. How about we claim that the name is so powerful that it we hear it, we die.
 
nabaxo said:
Maybe AMAZON's Mighty Alliance of the Zenobian Omnipotent Nations? Don't know if it makes sense anymore. :P
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Makes perfect sense. I like this variation:goodjob:

@r20 - Maybe your point about keeping it a secret could be fun. Maybe only AMAZONs are allowed to know/say the WHOLE meaning, but we can slowly reveal parts of the meaning to our allies in our diplomacy with them. A great opportunity to do a little role-playing.

Maybe every 100 years or so we reveal a different part, or with every diplomatic message we tell a little tiny bit of the story...

The mystery could also be a great topic for our international newspaper!:D
 
If we do it like Sommer says, we then wont have to decide on anything. We could just give contradicting explanations to the other teams at different occasions, you know. Just for shits and giggles! A little mind:):):):)ing is always fun. :D
 
Or we could give all of them the wrong meaning. :evil:
 
I like the idea of keeping the true meaning a secret to team members only, while giving false meanings to outsiders.

But you know, maybe even among AMAZONs there is great internal debate as to the true meaning of our name. The secret has been lost to time, over the course of thousands of years. Many have searched for clues to the name, but there is no one conclusive definition.

ALL HAIL ZENOBIA!
 
There we could add some role playing. All AMAZONs have to find out our true name.
 
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