# Non-Star Wars Skywalker Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 1, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428 "2009-06-01T23:52:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428/21 "2009-06-02T21:09:27Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > …litterally… [sic] I do not think this word means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428/22 "2009-06-02T21:16:17Z")
**Kobal2** appears to be a fan of [TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanSteam). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428/23 "2009-06-02T22:41:39Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Lucas made nothing up : Sky-walker is one of the many titles/kennings of the Norse god Loki. So, it’s litterally older than steam. Which is not to say Lucas cribbed it off the sagas either, for all I know he may have re-discovered it on his own, after all it’s a pretty cool name/title. > > Still, in the interest of nitpick.. I mean fighting ignorance, and all that. You’re probably right; he did nab most of the “made up” words from other cultures and myths, so that makes some sense. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428/24 "2009-06-03T01:02:17Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > [sic] I do not think this word means what you think it means. … Dammit. You guys are nitpicking samurais. Honing your art single-mindedly, with unmatched dedication, for all your life, preparing this one perfect cherry blossom. I bow down… sensei. 😉 ( **Bosstone** ’s right, BTW) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428/25 "2009-06-03T13:50:12Z")
I have a female cousin who got divorced a year or so after the original Star Wars came out. She sure didn’t want his last name anymore and didn’t really like her maiden name either. So she changed it to Starwalker. Had a nice sound, but wasn’t too fanboyish. ---
**Author:** ![VonDan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/6de8d8/32.png) [@VonDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VonDan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428/26 "2015-10-06T00:58:47Z")
When I was in High School there was a boy in either the JHS or 9th grade named Skywalker who was born around 1970 or 72 being 3 or 4 years behind me. I worked with his grand father, father and sister and they all told me this bit of trivia and i cross checked with the school files that it was the kids birth name Skywalker was named after a native American medicine man that is also translated as Windwalker The family lived on a hippy worm farm in Marin County California when Sky was born and in about Christmas of 1973 the father Shannon (Shenandoah) was at a wine and cheese party in Marin when he meet George Lucas and they talked about their families and Shannon showed George pictures of his Toddler Son Skywalker and George ask about the name ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428/27 "2015-10-06T04:28:11Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > That one’s not too surprising, as Vader is Dutch for “Father.” There’s plenty of Dutch with that last name. And it appears in the movie “Young Fr_ah_nkenst_ee_n”. “He ist vollowink in his vader’s vootschtapps!” ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428/28 "2015-10-06T13:07:02Z")
The concept of a god named or titled “Sky Father” is actually a [feature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_father) of Proto-Indo-European religion that survived in some of its branches. This god became Dyáus Pitā in Hinduism, Jupiter in Roman mythology, and Zeus (Zeu Pater) in Greek myth. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428/29 "2015-10-06T16:49:51Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > A local radio station paid someone to legally change her name to Obi Wan Kenobi. She filed all the legal papers and got $2000 or so. I don’t know if she changed it back later or not. This was in 1999 when Episode I came out. I used to know somebody who’s last name was Kenobi (or something very similar) I always wanted to ask him if he had any relatives named Juan.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428/30 "2015-10-06T17:43:41Z")
This thread is totally about Star Wars. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-star-wars-skywalker-question/498428/31 "2015-10-06T23:59:46Z")
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