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Maybe it was something to do with ISIS being her username? Just speculating though.

I think that is genuinely her Christian name. Ancient Egyptian Goddess of health, marriage and wisdom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis

And it is a beautiful name. Too bad the name got marked with a bad reference pretty much forever now.

I remember elementary OS wanting to name their 0.3 version Isis. Unfortunately, they had to change it because that was the time when ISIS was all over the news. All of their releases so far got named after ancient god: Jupiter, Luna, Isis (that got renamed to Freya) and the next edition is going to be named Loki.

I got really sad when they announced the change of the name because elementary OS is my primary operating system and I really liked the name Isis before all of this happened.

I used Tor as my username on Youtube before I knew what Tor was ; thought the name was a Swedish god , should change it to avoid future harassment (ha, ha)

Wow,researching the name Tor, I found out they may have found the old Swedish god of thunders hammer. http://www.thelocal.se/20130401/46930

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