The Greek word, or name rather, “Tassos” is short for “Anastassios,” which has been translated into English as “resurrection.”

However, if I may take some poetic liberty here, I think the above answer misses the deeper beauty of the name, Tassos. Perhaps the meaning is closer to “the opposite of stasis,” where “Ana” means “the opposite of” or “the reverse of” and “stasis” means “motionless,” in the sense of two opposing forces coming into balance with each other.  Still another possible way of reading the word stasis might be “stationary or stabile.”

Putting Ana and Stasis together, this new word, anastasis, could mean “to set into motion the motionless,” “to overcome the balance,” or perhaps (al beit stretching a bit) “to conquer.”

So, where you were once motionless in the balance of the forces, now you are moving, driving the opposing force. If the opposing forces are life & death, then, from the perspective of life, this could correctly be translated into “Resurrection.”

But I find that looking at the original Greek, with all the various meanings, reveals a much larger picture. Which is why you’ll see the question, “How do you Tassos?” on “Your Wisdom” page. What is being asked of you is, “How do you re-new, rejuvenate, re-experience and bring movement to your world?”

Finally, I thought it might also interest you that the name “Tessa,” short for name “Theresa,” also comes from Greek and means Thresher, or one who separates the seed and grain from the husk and straw.  One might substitute the word “reaper” for thresher.  But a reaper, is more of a harvester or farm worker and doesn’t have the connotation of that of a thresher, or being able to separate the good stuff from the not-so-good stuff, a connoisseur of sorts. The Reaper gets everything ready for sorting. The Thresher is the one that does the sorting.

Hope this answers your question and thanks for your post!