"name" things is not a simple exercise in imagination, but a key moment of creation and / or discovery of the world. In the Bible we read: Then the Lord God formed from the ground every beast of the field and all the birds of the sky and brought them to man, to see what he would call in any way the man called every living creature, that was the Its name: The man gave names to all cattle, all the birds of the sky and all the wild animals (Genesis 2: 19-20) : Giovanni Pascoli's what you remember, when talking about the little boy ( ie that part of the child who is forever in the soul of man and that is fully realized in the poet) defines the Adam puts his name to everything he sees and hears that would enable interesting reflections on the value of the name, given names for the child and the poet! In all cultures, religious
know the name is to know the essence and say it amounts to evoke and to seize the power of that name who leads : therein lies the reason for the ban the Bible say about the name in vain of God (Exodus , 20, 7 ). Classical culture has left us many examples of the importance of the names of the gods holds for all, the famous invocation of the chorus of ' Agamemnon of Aeschylus: Zeus, whatever your name is never, if by that you like being called With this I call (vv.160-162) .
For men, the beginning of life coincides with the hiring of a name. But this also applies for entry into a completely new reality: the making monaco, brother or sister, to join some cult or some secret society, etc. ... the importance of the magical things as he writes in his illuminating James G. Frazer The Golden Bough , particularly in relation to the use of two names at the Egyptian civilization and the Indian
Every Egyptian received two names known respectively as the real name and the name of good, or as large as as small: and while the good name or public was small, and large real name is kept secret with great care. The child received Brahmin two names, one for general use, the other secret, known only by his father and mother. This second name is not used in the rituals that, as in marriage. This practice is intended to protect the person from magic, a spell as it becomes effective only in combination with the real name.
"My name you know my name Tell me / tell me my name and I will die at dawn" : thus saith the male protagonist of twentieth-century opera, entrusting their fate to the knowledge of the name by cruel princess. Which opera is it? (*)
- The New American Bible
- Giovanni Pascoli, Works
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon
- James G. Frazer, The Golden Bough
Corner Teacher: names in literature
(*) What name to give, finally, the principle which, together with justice and equity, should guide the hand of judges and legislators in all disciplinary matters, including the protection of personal rights? Maybe what he discovers in the third act opera Turandot: "For no one has slept all night in Beijing. An edict of Turandot imposes the death penalty, to disclose before dawn as winner of the unknown. Calaf is, for its part, safe in the capital because no one knows him. The three ministers offer beautiful gifts and provided that slaves be gone, but he just wants to Turandot. Some thugs lead Timur and Liu were seen talking with the stranger at the walls. The Princess is called to question. To save Timur, Liu says that she alone knows the stranger's name, but will not say. Subjected to torture, fearing that the name escapes, kills himself by confessing his ill-fated love for the Prince and Turandot predicting that eventually they will love.
At least his sacrifice was not in vain. Turandot loses the primitive harshness. Calaf grabs her, kisses her and his name suggests. The Emperor is at the top of the stairs, surrounded by the Court. The square was packed by the crowd waiting. Turandot go up the stairs: it reveals to his father to know the stranger's name, and setting Calaf, mutters with a sigh: "His name is Love."
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