the OFFICIAL "explain your user name" thread!!!!!

Mine is my second name and also my Nickname, Geordies never use first names when talking to people I dont know why.
 
* Iris is the name of a Greek Goddess:
" In Greek mythology, Goddess of the Rainbow, the daughter of the Titan Thaumas and Electra, daughter of the Titan Oceanus. As messenger of the god Zeus and his wife, Hera, Iris left Olympus only to convey the divine commands to humankind, by whom she was regarded as an adviser and guide. Traveling with the speed of the wind, she could go from one end of the earth, to the other and to the bottom of the sea
or to the depths of the underworld. As above, so below..
Although she was a sister of the winged monsters, the Harpies, Iris appears with wings on both back ànd feet and robes of bright colors.
She is depicted (mostly on vases) as a young woman and a herald's rod and/or a pitcher in her hand,
trailing across the sky with a rainbow in her wake. "

* It's the coloured part of an eye:
" She was also the diety who separated the soul from the body after death.
Since the soul exits through the eyes, the colored part was named Iris."

* It's the name of a lis-flower:
" and since Iris seperated the soul from the body after death,
therefor the flower is traditionally seen at funerals and memorial days."

iris-flower.jpg


* Iris is my real name :)