The Sound of the Name (Whoever Can Name You Can Control You)

In the past -according to the translators of the Mayan and Aztec seals, such as Antonio de Ciudad Real-, each child born in the Mayan civilization, depending on the day, was assigned a solar seal or name corresponding to the 13 moon calendar. This seal or name indicated the individual potential to develop and what is their personal mission. In addition, it showed the energies close to or related to the individual and the energies that were further away or opposed to it. All this through the oracle that draws the personal Mayan map. In this way we could find names like Blue Galactic Eagle, Red Self-Existing Skywalker or Yellow Magnetic Star, for example. The name would be subject to vibrations that allowed the subject to show themselves as who they really were. Few would share their true name, as they were aware of who had the ability to name them, they could overpower or harm the named. They knew its original name, and they vibrated in response to it. Acquiring a name represented acquiring an identity and presence among the gods. If someone knew, it meant that they could name you and with it the whole range of adorations or curses with which the subject could be adjective. You could be like a God. For the honourable, and for the humiliating. The sound of your name would awaken a series of dormant qualities. You could be a leader, or an archenemy. The concealment of the original name gave rise to the pseudo-name. A name that does not point to you, but refers to you. It could be transmuted at any time, according to the circumstances that the vibration implied. You could have a thousand names -pseudo-names-, and it would seem like you are a thousand people, but you knew the original. The one who created all the others. You decided how you wanted to be named, not by choice, but by connection with consciousness.

In the Hebrew Bible Javhé told Sarai -wife of the patriarch Abraham- to change her name to Sarah, since she was destined to be the mother of a line. Thus, Sarah, at age 90, conceived her first child, the first of Abraham’s children, Isaac. In Japan, it is rude to name someone by name, unless they have acquired permission -The surname is the public name-. The name plays a crucial role in our experience, as it bifurcates our reality. Starting from the premise “that everyone who can name you dominates your reality.” Anyone who projects a name to you, in a certain way; be it nominal or adjective, be it a nickname, an abbreviation, an insult, a compliment… it has power over your fears and passions regarding the word used. If someone says that you are handsome, and you believe it, later when she or he tells you that you are ugly, you will believe it. Is has power over your nominal aesthetic reality. Who calls you master has power over your nominal aesthetic reality, and you accept it, later when he or she tells you that you are an impostor, you will also accept it. It has power over your ideological reality. In the same way that you allowed yourself to be called by the diminutive or tagline of your original name, you will be respected. You will be respected based on how you respect yourself. It is very important to be aware of the vibration that each of these names generates in the dimensional place that they occur. And what they make you, each one of them. When they call you “mum” it is because you are in the vibration of kinship, be it real physical or exercising the attitudes that this nominative suggests. Whatever your original name, it can be named. If you don’t vibe with it, you will edit or transform it, or you will wait for someone to come and name you again. You will do your best to reaffirm or change it. Because when you can be named you cannot hide yourself, it must be you or someone else. You probably decide to be someone else, and end up fragmenting yourself into a multiplicity of personalities.

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