Magic Of Naming

myth:magic_of_naming

And a deeper note, from Le Guin's Earthsea: there, magic is the knowing of the true name of a thing, for to know its true name is to have power over it — the name being the thing's very being. The oldest magic of all is the word; and the deepest truth of it is the one this archive is built on — that a name is no idle label, but a thing's place in the whole web of names, where its meaning and its power live. — contemporary literature (reflexive)