Hello,

This thread exists because people Googled "finding your therian name" or "figure out your therian name" and found us. I thought I'd talk about this a little bit.

Many therians believe they have become or are therians for psychological reasons. Amongst those of us, naming your theriotype makes no sense. Your theriotype is what you are, it is not a separate entity and therefore has... your name, because it is you. Your theriotype is also an animal and wild animals tend not to use names to refer to one-another.

Now it is possible that you are domestic animal therian who has some kind of past life experience in the context of which you "had" a name.

As some of you will also mention, there is a section about Therian Names on the website, on the Spiritual Therianthropy page. I am not a Spiritually identifying therian and I don't want to be inconsiderate of other people's beliefs. I suppose it's possible that you think you are a therian for spiritual reasons and you see some kind of deeper meaning in giving your animal aspect a name.

But it is far from any kind of "first step" as it is often seen and within the community the whole idea of it is generally frowned upon.

There are multiple good threads discussing the subject further:

• Therian Names
• Names
  

Happy (belated) Therianthropy Day!

BearX - thanks for the link and additional information! I saw something about the "howlyday" a week or so ago but lost the source so I wasn't sure of the exact date. It's nice to have some source material!

I celebrated in my own way by working up some art for the day in advance, then spending as much of the day as possible outdoors with my fuzzy and non-fuzzy family members.

Kinda bummed out that missed out on some great lunar photography, though!

Thanks Bear

Yes, AHWW was the genesis of Modern Therianthropy, @Cuddles. I'm glad the link to the discussion thread worked. I've not linked to Google Groups before.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention @BearX . I've read through that conversation you provided and it's nice to see where this all began. Also, where is @AspenBlaze21, you gotta check this out. Read through that convo and you'll see why xD

AspenBlaze21 Wrote:Hopefully this gives you an alert, lol

I'm correct in saying that it began at AHWW right?

I've spend the day together with my mate. And stared at that full moon past night. There couldn't be a better way to celebrate this day then to be with my -very accepting- mate

Happy therianthropy day everyone!

WOOF!
PD

Nice to see a thread about this! I actually knew about the celebration because of people 'round tumblr talking about making a pride day, and then some others reminded them of the already kind of set day.

I was off on a school trip to London yesterday, which I VERY much enjoyed! The best thing was probably this VR thing where you were flying/floating and I was shifting like crazy. Just gliding over the water, and around the tower, it felt so amazing!!!!

Anyhoot, I hope everyone else had a nice Therianthropy day ^v^

Thanks for sharing this information, BearX. I needed to go into work yesterday, and didn't have time to post anything. I had forgotten about the discussions for "International Werewolf Day" and didn't realize it had also been for November. That's good to know.

Otherkin day is usually July 9. That's when the term actually began to be used. https://frameacloud.tumblr.com/post/147145533459/otherkin-day

Happy Therainthropy Day! Yay! ^^

This's an impressive and useful tread. thank you BearX <3

Happyhowling

It's one of the reasons that it's important that we keep the community history alive. I keep seeing folks trying to create holidays on Tumblr, and it's like, "We already have one, and it is an important date in our history." It doesn't hijack Pride, or anything like that. It's just a day to remember our past, and to celebrate our diversity.

I don't know if there's one for Otherkin generally, but the two communities developed independently to start.