We exists, all our lives, after our names, and not before.
A name is a narration compressed into a symbol, and can have the most simple shape, or the most complex story, or anything in-between.
The invocation of one’s name is power on them and, as such, this power is shared between evens, and is not shared between un-evens, and titles are chosen in accompanying, and rules, to reduce or accrue the power of the invocation; and sometimes the name is the first thing shared, and sometimes the last, and anything in-between.
Our lives are influenced by our names and our birth dates and our birth places, at any level of analysis, symbolic or mundane; and they are influenced by our families’ and others’, and those have been influenced too.
Always have, before nations ever were, before science ever was.
The profound implications of these statements can be studied with science, or seen in the depth of one’s soul, for all have thought about their own name and its consequences on their lives, at any level.
And we also see the influence of other peoples’ names’ on their lives, and on our relation with them, and we give new names to the people we like, and we give new names to the people we don’t like, and we share these names in varying degrees; and sometimes are never uttered, and sometimes are screamed as a ocean of human beings.
And symbols like names are fixed and are no final truths alike, but bound to change and be changed in meaning and shape and implications.
See how lords and violents and machines these truths assign, and request, and predict, and invoke, for stillness is willed to be induced, and power exerted, and for still attributes are to be imposed and exerted then, which are all lies to the truth of the Cosmos, which is that of change and motion, and life; so that fixed names are stillness, and death.
And still, in some cultures, a name is self-given, or given in friendship, or given in honor, or given in time, or given in martyr, and all these rituals are with their infinite profoundness in symbols and practical consequences.
Observe who invokes and assigns and hides and shares the names, and how, and when, and why, and all the questions that can be thought of; because names are in the most profound truths, and in the most profound shapes and consequences alike.