Synopsis of GR--corrections

[dmccord at ibm.net]

There may be no gods, but there is a pattern: names by themselves may
have no magic, but the act of naming, the physical utterance, obeys
the pattern. Nordhausen means dwellings in the north.
p. 322

Rereading this brought to mind something I had read this past summer.

The following is quoted from an essay by G. Van Der Leeuw 'Primordial 
Time and Final Time' in the 'Eranos Jahrbucher' 1949 

"From the Enuma Elish, the great Babylonian epic of creation:
	When in the height heaven was not named
	And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name,
	And the primeval Apsu(-), who begat them,
	And chaos, Tiamat, the mother of them both,-
	Their waters were mingled together,
	And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;
	When of the gods none had been called into being,
	And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained;
	Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven,
	Lahmu and Lahamu were caled into being.
The gods are included in the world; at most they provide names, but 
they themselves must be named. The chaos in its male(Apsu(-)) and 
female (Tiamat) form is the only thing that was befor anything was. 
The act of creation is the proclaiming word."

Also,

"The paradox of a creation from nothingness--not a mere ordering, not 
even a founding, but a kind of magical evocation, is already inherent 
in the contrast between the two Biblical terms _bara_,"to create by 
the word," and _asa_"to make,""to produce";...


BTW, to the original question, this might be of interest
"...Can his name, can "Enzian" break_their_power? Can 
his_name_prevail?
	The Erdschweinhohle is in one of the worst traps of all, a 
dialectic of word made flesh, flesh moving tward something else..."
p.374(bantum)add @22 for Viking

Ok, enough of the famouse quotes hour. I'll try for something 
original next time.