From Wiki: “The names ǂKá̦gára and ǃHãunu are from the mythology of the ǀXam people of South Africa. ǂKá̦gára and his brother-in-law ǃHãunu fought an epic battle in the east using thunder and lightning, producing mountainous clouds and rain. The conflict was fought over ǂKá̦gára’s returning his younger sister, ǃHãunu’s wife, to their parents.”
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Name origin: Greek mythical daughter of Agamemnon and Klytaemnestra. After their mother murders their father, Elektra and her brother Orestes plot to kill Klytaemnestra and her lover Aegisthus in revenge, on the orders of the Delphic Oracle.
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Name origin: A Theban princess in Greek tales; daughter of Oedipus. Antigone rebels against her uncle King Creon’s directive not to allow her brother Polynices a proper burial.
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Name origin: Aetolian princess who became a Spartan queen; mother of the Dioscuri, Clytaemnestra and Helen, after Zeus seduced her in the guise of a swan.
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Name origin: Mythological princess who becomes the Greek goddess of the soul and wife of Eros.
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