MDDM Re: ch.67 "Oh, Coz, what Stuff."

[Doug Millison]

At 3:23 PM -0700 8/1/02, Doug Millison wrote:
>The right to name is the right to create a world, or something like that.


It's more than that, I think -- the right of ownership, the right to dominate.


Genesis 2

The Creation of Man and Woman

1   Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.
2   By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He
rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
3   Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He
rested from all His work which God had created and made.
4   This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were
created, in  the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.
5    Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the
field had yet sprouted,  for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth,
and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
6   But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of
the ground.
7   Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
8   The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He
placed the man whom He had formed.
9   Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is
pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst
of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10   Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it
divided and became four rivers.
11   The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of
Havilah, where there is gold.
12   The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
13   The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land
of Cush.
14   The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And
the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15   Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to
cultivate it and keep it.
16   The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden
you may eat freely;
17   but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat,
for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."
18   Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone;  I
will make him a helper  suitable for him."
19   Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and
every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would
call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its
name.
20   The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and
to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found  a helper
suitable for him.
21   So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he
slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.
22   The LORD God fashioned into a woman  the rib which He had taken from
the man, and brought her to the man.
23   The man said,
          " This is now bone of my bones,
          And flesh of my flesh;
          She shall be called Woman,
          Because she was taken out of Man."
24   For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be
joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
25   And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=GEN+2&language=english&version
=NASB&showfn=on&showxref=on





doug:
>As their master/owners gave enslaved Africans new names and sought to erase
>their original names (and other cultural traits, no more drumming or native
>religious celebration, etc.), so did the Europeans rename the native people
>and places they encountered and, largely, destroyed.   Pynchon loves to
>play with names.
>
>
>At 8:12 AM +1100 8/2/02, jbor wrote:
>>I'm interested in that list of names of the "Indians!" (648.18).