Circle of stars all EU leaders as the official emblem of the European Communities, and in 1993 inherited by the successor organisation, the European Union. All European institutions now use an emblem of their own. The Zodiac is an ancient "circle of stars" where some stars are symbolically combined into 12 Star signs also known as constellations. The etymology of the term Zodiac comes from the Latin zōdiacus, from the Greek ζῳδιακός [κύκλος], meaning "[circle] of animals", derived from ζῴδιον, the diminutive of ζῷον "animal". The Crown of Immortality is a separate and earlier motif (and metaphor) which also uses a circle of
Kira (given name) Kira (given name) Kira is a mostly feminine name of multiple origins and meanings. The feminine form is pronounced or . It might be a feminine form of the name Kiran, pronounced . Kiran is of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning "beam of light". Besides Sanskrit, there might be other etymologies from Egyptian, where the word Ki-Ra means "like Ra", or Persian. Due to the Greek interpretation of the Persian king's name Kourosh (کوروش, "Kūrosh") as Κύρος ("Kýros") – which was obviously modeled after the Greek word κύριος ("kýrios" "lord"), the feminine form being κυρία ("kyría") – Kyra (or Kira)