Generally in the ancient world, the assignment of role and function is connected to the giving of names. Egyptian literature identified the creator god as the one who pronounced the name of everything.27 In this way of thinking, things did not exist unless they were named. “It was believed that the name of a living being or an object was not just a simple or practical designation to facilitate the exchange of ideas between persons but that it was the very essence of what was defined, and that the actual pronouncing of a name was to create what was spoken.”
