AtD, naming

[David Payne]

Jumping back a bit on this here thread, on Fri, 2 May 2008 (11:31:55 -0700), Ian  wrote:

> Ah, here's that post about naming.  Genisis chapter 2, verse 19ff.

There is also the earlier naming-as-creation by god in Genesis 1:1-11, a biblical passage that is is specifically mentioned in AtD (p. 354), just before the old _saw-your-double-refraction-in-half-thereby-bilocating-you-in-time_ trick:

"Remember, god didn't say, 'I'm gonna make light now," he said, "let there be light." His first act was to _allow light in_ to what had been Nothing. Like God, you also have to always work with the light, make it do only what you want it to."

He unrolled an expanse of absolute fluid blackness.

Here is the biblical version, which also has much to say about the day and above and below:

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

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