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This was far more interesting in Orthodox Russia just one century ago. Children was given names by the church pope using the calendar table "svyatcy". No wonde

• guard-of-terra 14y ago
  I don't like church but I think that you only tell us a small subset of truth. So small it might not be so true anymore. There was a list of (saints) names associated with certain dates, but I don't believe that parents would be universally forced to take the matching name. And remember that in the countryside, most people were married (by their parents' choice) while still being minors by modern standards. The traditional society is called traditional for a reason: it's not that you can't call your son with a random name, it's just this thought never occurs to you. You do what you're supposed to do by default.
  • Muromec 14y ago
    >I don't believe that parents would be universally forced to take the matching name. Well, I don`t believe that people would kill each other over burning some shitty book or what is written in it, so what? >You do what you're supposed to do by default. Most of people do. But if you don`t here enforcement comes. Seriously, even in modern XXI century I can`t choose how my name is spelled in passport because of some old hag knowing it better. And you are talking about rural areas where only authority registering births is pope. Why wouldn`t he enforce some shitty rules?
    • guard-of-terra 14y ago
      "Why wouldn't he" is a weak argument in the absense of facts or references. Note that we're talking about prevalence of enforcement, not the anecdotes of it.