Today I became a proud owner of two kittens. I named them Yin and Yang because of their colors and how their tendancy to lay over each other resembles the
Yin & Yang symbol. The following is from
Wikipedia's Yin & Yang page:
Yin, the darker element, is passive, dark, feminine, downward-seeking, and corresponds to the night; yang, the brighter element, is active, light, masculine, upward-seeking and corresponds to the day.
So obviously I named the black female Yin and the white male cat Yang because of that definition fit so well. Especially since Yang is already "upwards seeking" because he tries to get up and explore a lot more than Yin does. It was a perfect match for their names I think.
You can view more photos of the two
here at my Flickr page.