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Squall · Post by **Squall** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:54 pm

Its how you apear to most of the people on the forum. The image your most associated with does it have any particular meaning?

Lotan · Post by **Lotan** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:46 am

Mine is obvious (I hope) to anyone interested in ANE mythology. Among the Canaanites, Lotan, called "The Fleeing Serpent" or "The Coiling Serpent" represented the primordial chaos. Defeated by Baal, his (or her) body was divided to create the heavens and the earth. In the bible Lotan appears as Leviathan. See Psalm 74:14, 89:10,Isaiah 27:1 etc. Another parallel of this myth is the battle between Tiamat and Marduk from the Babylonian Enuma Elish.

The significance of this symbol, for me, is that the bible should be understood in its historical and archaeological context.

MagusYanam · Post by **MagusYanam** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:47 pm

My avatar is a silhouette of my favourite character from the classic Super Famicom game Chrono Trigger, Magus - also known as Janus and Guile. He's a very grey character, neither particularly good nor particularly evil - that I think also makes him the most understandable. Also there are references in Chrono Trigger to the magi of the Gospel of St. Matthew: Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar (who in the game are Magus' mentors, the Gurus of Time, Life and Reason).

My screen name is also influenced noticeably by the character of Magus.

Bro Dave · Post by **Bro Dave** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:11 pm

MagusYanam wrote:My avatar is a silhouette of my favourite character from the classic Super Famicom game Chrono Trigger, Magus - also known as Janus and Guile. He's a very grey character, neither particularly good nor particularly evil - that I think also makes him the most understandable. Also there are references in Chrono Trigger to the magi of the Gospel of St. Matthew: Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar (who in the game are Magus' mentors, the Gurus of Time, Life and Reason).

My screen name is also influenced noticeably by the character of Magus.

Oh Boy! All this time I thought it was an island with a palm tree...

Bro Dave

Squall · Post by **Squall** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:16 pm

LOL don't fret Magus I recognized your avatar

turtleguy · Post by **turtleguy** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:41 am

uhh my avator has no meaning... i just thought IT looked funny (it isnt me)

Regular_Guy · Post by **Regular_Guy** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:07 pm

Love the av turtle!

Im a fan of the character on "house". The guy is pure genius, and is always right! How could I not pay homage?

ENIGMA · Post by **ENIGMA** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:01 pm

My avatar is from a FPS game titled "Deus Ex", the only first person shooter with a decent single player story line as well as actually requiring thinking, analysis, and to some degree, moral judgement, as opposed to just twitch reflexes. It's a great game, with some twisted political philosophy becoming quite apparent if you play enough of the side-quests.

The avatar is that of a quasi-sentient surveilance AI named Daedalus who frees the protagonist from a cell in a mysterious complex and then provides valuable information for a good part of the game. Eventually, it merges with another AI and at the endgame offers the protagonist the ability to become something of a Demigod, presumably to manage the world as something of a benevolent philosopher-king like entity.

Squall · Post by **Squall** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 4:25 pm

I changed my avatar to this handsome devil..Its a self portrait tee hee!