介紹
1.
喀戎Chiron
In Greek mythology, Chiron or Cheiron ("hand"[1]) was held as the superlative centaur among his brethren. Like the satyrs, centaurs were notorious for being overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, given to violence when intoxicated, and generally uncultured. Chiron, by contrast, was intelligent, civilized and kind. He was known for his knowledge and skill with medicine. Sired by Cronus when he had taken the form of a horse and impregnated the nymph, Philyra,[2] Chiron came from a different lineage than other centaurs, who were born of sun and raincloud, rendered by Greeks of the Classic period as from the union of the king Ixion, consigned to a fiery wheel, and Nephele ("cloud"), whom in the Olympian telling Zeus invented, to look like Hera.
Chiron married the nymph Chariclo who bore him three daughters, Hippe (Melanippe or Euippe), Endeis, and Ocyrhoe, and one son Carystus. Chiron, his wife and children lived on Mount Pelion.
A great healer, astrologer, and respected oracle, the last remaining centaur was most revered as a teacher and tutor.[3]
His nobility is further reflected in the story of his death as Chiron sacrificed his life, allowing humanity to obtain the use of fire. Being the son of Kronos, a titan, he was immortal and so could not die. So it was left to Heracles to arrange a bargain with Zeus to exchange Chiron’s immortality for the life of Prometheus who had been chained to a rock and left to die for his transgressions. Chiron had been poisoned with an arrow belonging to Heracles that had been treated with the blood of the Hydra, or, in other versions, poison that Chiron had given to the hero when he had been under the honorable centaur’s tutelage. This had taken place during the visit of Heracles to the cave of Pholus on Mount Pelion in Thessaly when he visited his friend during his fourth labour in defeating the Erymanthian Boar. While they were at supper, Heracles asked for some wine to accompany his meal. Pholus, who ate his food raw, was taken aback. He had been given a vessel of sacred wine by Dionysus sometime earlier, to be kept in trust for the rest of the centaurs until the right time for its opening. At Heracles’ prompting, Pholus was forced to produce the vessel of sacred wine. The hero, gasping for wine, grabbed it from him and forced it open. Thereupon the vapours of the sacred wine wafted out of the cave and intoxicated the wild centaurs, led by Nessus, who had gathered outside. They attacked the cave with stones and fir trees. Heracles was forced to shoot many arrows (poisoned, of course, with the blood of the Hydra) to drive them back. During this assault, Chiron was hit in the thigh by one of the poisoned arrows. After the centaurs had fled, Pholus emerged from the cave to observe the destruction. Being of a philosophical frame of mind, he pulled one of the arrows from the body of a dead centaur and wondered how such a little thing as an arrow could have caused so much death and destruction. In that instant, he let slip the arrow from his hand and it dropped and hit him in the foot, killing him instantly.
Ironically, Chiron, the master of the healing arts, could not heal himself, so he willingly gave up his immortality. He was honoured with a place in the sky, for the Greeks as the constellation Sagittarius, and in modern times represented by the constellation of the southern hemisphere, Centaurus.
Chiron saved the life of Peleus when Acastus tried to kill him by taking his sword and leaving him out in the woods to be slaughtered by the centaurs. Chiron retrieved the sword for Peleus. Some sources speculate that Chiron was originally a Thessalian god, later subsumed into the Greek pantheon as a centaur.
喀戎（Chiron，又叫凱隆）是希臘神話一個半人馬的名字。
半人馬居住位於在希臘中東部屏達思山和愛琴海之間叫做塞薩利和阿卡迪亞的地區。他們經常因為放蕩和好色而被描述成酒神狄俄尼索斯的追隨者。
他們中的一個例外是喀戎。喀戎不像其他的半人馬般兇殘野蠻，而以其和善及智慧著稱，所以在中文裏也常被美稱為人馬。他是多位希臘英雄的導師，當中包括忒修斯（Theseus）、阿基裏斯（Achilles）、伊阿宋（Jason）赫拉赫勒斯（Heracles））。他也是醫藥之神亞斯克雷比奧斯（Asclepius）的老師。
海格力斯在一次追殺半人馬強盜的過程中誤傷了他的老師喀戎，使用的正是當年老師贈送的無堅不摧的箭。那只箭穿過一個半人馬強盜的身體，射中了後面喀戎的咽喉。喀戎本是不死之身，但赫拉赫勒斯的箭浸泡了九頭蛇許德拉毒血，喀戎感到疼痛的折磨超過死亡。當時普羅米修士因為偷了天火給人類使用，正被宙斯綁在高加索山上受苦刑，喀戎決定將自己與普羅米修士交換，讓普羅米修士脫離痛苦而自己放棄永生，讓兩方都得以解脫。後被宙斯升上天空，成為射手座。另外人馬座（俗稱射手座）代表的也是手持弓箭的射手喀戎。
引自
2.《預言》中，人物名字的背後：
Cecilia：
Latinate feminine form of the Roman family name Caecilius, which was derived from Latin caecus "blind". According to legend, Saint Cecilia was a 3rd-century martyr who was sentenced to die because she refused to worship the Roman gods. After attempts to suffocate her failed, she had her head chopped off. She is the patron saint of music and musicians.
Severus：
Severus means "stern" in Latin. The name Severus was borne by several early saints.
Milen：
From the Slavic element mil meaning "gracious", originally a short form of names that began with that element. A city in Italy bears this name, though it originates from a different source.
Eligio:
Italian and Spanish form of the Late Latin name Eligius, which was derived from Latin eligere "to choose". The 7th-century Saint Eligius is the patron saint of metalworkers.
Athanasios:
From the Greek name Αθανασιος (Athanasios), which meant "immortal" from Greek α, a negative prefix, combined with θανατος (thanatos) "death". Saint Athanasius was a 4th-century bishop of Alexandria who strongly opposed Arianism.
Leonora：
From the French form of the Provençal name Alienor. It was borne by Eleanor of Aquitaine (12th century), the wife of both Louis VII, the king of France, and Henry II, the king of England. She was named Aenor after her mother, and was called by the Provençal phrase alia Aenor "the other Aenor" in order to distinguish her from her mother. More recently, this name was also borne by the wife of American president Franklin Roosevelt.
阿爾方索•哈德里安•費裏博特•艾茨爾•魯普萊希特（Alfonso Hadrian Filibert Etzel Ruprecht）
Hadrian：From the Roman cognomen Hadrianus, which meant "from Hadria" in Latin. Hadria was a town in northern Italy (it gave its name to the Adriatic Sea). A famous bearer of the name was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, a 2nd-century Roman emperor who built a wall across northern Britain.
Alfonso：Spanish and Italian form of a Visigothic Germanic name, probably meaning "noble and ready", from the element adal "noble" combined with funs "ready". Other theories claim the first element is ala "all", hadu "struggle" or hild "battle" (see ILDEFONSO). It is possible that two or more names merged into a single form. This was the name of six kings of Portugal and kings of several ancient regions of Spain.
Filibert：Means "much brightness" from Germanic fila "much" and beraht "bright".
Etzel：Medieval name derived from Germanic adal "noble".
Ruprecht：Name of saint
Erdmann：Means "brave man", derived from the Germanic element hard "brave, hardy" combined with man.
