Piracanga: A Tale Of Baby-naming

My mummy told me that I was conceived on the shores of magical water: the Adriatic Sea, on a small island of Croatia in a tiny village called Kukljica where my daddy used to visit to spend his childhood summers.

She and my father both believe a name is like a mantra. It should have a nice vibration, sound and meaning. But my mother couldn't think of a girl's name that fulfilled this criteria and she was convinced all along that I was a girl. You can imagine the distress (as my arrival neared) that she felt.

However, one afternoon while sitting on the edge of the Piracanga ocean watching and listening to the crash and roar of the waters she felt inspired.

My mum wanted a name that would honour my place of conception and birth. She started playing with the letters of Kukljica, Croatia and Brazil. In her mind, she scattered them and reorganised them, trying to create a suitable name.

Then the lightbulb went on. She took the 'K' from Kukljica, the 'O' for the sound in Croatia and the 'BRA' from Brazil and combined them to make Kobra.

She looked up from her place in the sand and said to my daddy, "I've got it! Kobra. What do you think?"

My daddy liked it. I even gave a kick of approval from the womb.

My parents still weren't completely convinced I should be Kobra, but then as all things happen for a reason and guide us all to a higher sense of knowing, they began seeing signs.

The first confirmation was when a book arrived for my mummy all about freebirth. What was interesting was that all of the artwork in the book was surrounded by drawings of snakes. And at the very front was the spiritual explanation of the snake as a totem.

In the spiritual world the snake represents the sloughing off of the old and rebirth or transmutation to the new. The snake also has a magnetic resonance with Mother Earth and snake spirit guides teach ways to peer into the hearts of others and find ways to assist them on their spiritual paths. I think my mummy and daddy liked that.

Then the following day my big brother and mummy went on a nature walk in the forest, where they spotted their first Brazilian snake. 

By this time they were feeling more confident with the name Kobra. 

However, more "signs" were shown. In the house where I was to be born there were snakes painted on two different walls - they hadn't noticed these before. 

Finally, one day my mother was contemplating me and connecting with me in the womb. She peered out into the garden to see a snake slithering across the path. 

That was the final straw. I would be Kobra.

 

Comments

[Aase Beaulieu]

I'm so glad you got the name you wanted, Kobra, but then, your parents are pretty smart! I suppose you wouldn't really have chosen them otherwise, anyway:) Love and welcome to you, Aase (Nordic Goddess - my parents really reached...:)

[Bill Moss]

Wow! You write really well for a newborn! I couldn't write that well until I was nearly two months old. But then, I'm told that writing both Chinese and English is hard at that age--especially since we didn't have keyboards then, and I had a tough time keeping my drool out of the India ink! Anyway and again, welcome to Earth!