Name
_I: Speaking of bees and why we call them that, it reminds me of the importance we give to the words we use. Many times we take them for granted, as if they were that way and that's it. As if they had no meaning. And one of the things I liked most about this year was precisely investigating the origin of words.
_AM: Of course it is very difficult to investigate exactly the origin and real meaning that some of the words we use have had, because they go too far back in time and were generated in cultures that are impossible to know in depth. However, the weight carried by the meanings behind the words conditions the vibration when saying them.
_I: But, if we don't know its meaning, doesn't it lose its vibration in the face of the new intention? For example, the Latin word “gaudium” means “joy, happiness, enjoyment, fun”, which in the Occitan language gave rise to the word “gaui” and forming the term “gai” (sounding “guéh”), which became Saxon languages such as “gay”, which for centuries spread as a term for “joy, happiness”, something that would change around the 1940s when the English term became popular to describe “joyful men with hidden pleasures”, and from there, The word became discriminatory, with a weight of criticism and bullying, until after the 2000s it began to be used with pride, but now describing homosexuals instead of a happy person. So, what I'm saying is... For all of us who were subjected to bullying, and this word was a stigma of criticism that has led many to suicide, the word gay stopped vibrating as a symbol of joy and happiness, and became a painful weight...
_AM: Words evolve, or are distorted depending on the intention, and can be given various uses. But the word will always contain the truth in its essence. It is like a knife, which can be used to save lives or to take life, but neither one nor the other will change its reality of being a knife.
_I: I understand…
_AM: Colors, for example, are only visible as long as your optic nerves have the capacity to receive certain wave frequencies. If your eyes are not able to perceive the frequencies that vibrate around 700 times per second, then you will not be able to see the color red. That does not mean that Red does not exist, but that you are not able to see him. There are also different ranges, and the mixture between them, which can combine blue and red to create violet, for example. In the same way that this happens with the vibration in colors, you can find the vibration of sounds.
_I: Much more related to the term vibration.
_AM: Exactly. Therefore, each sound will vibrate with a specific tune, a specific tone, and thus transmit specific information. Each sound can become a letter in a language, and the combination of these vibrations generate packets of information.
_I: Words…
_AM: And words can be combined to form a meaning...
_I: Phrase, sentence, text, dialogue...
_AM: Depending on the context and the individuals who use them, these vibrations will be intertwined like a fabric with different textures, creating diverse patterns, all appearing unique, but formed by the same fabric, the same material.
_I: So in essence, there is a common origin.
_AM: The same red color can be used to paint a wall in a farm shed, or create a work of art like in the Sistine Chapel. And it will continue to be the color red. Words, then, can be modified and used in different contexts with different meanings, but they will always share an essence of information, beyond etymology.
_I: Beyond the meaning for which it was created?
_AM: Yes. Well, you can't compare your ancestors with a cell.
_I: I don't understand the simile...
_AM: Think carefully. Imagine that you are one word, and your parents are two words that have been used to create you with a new meaning. This way you can go back to the linguistic history of your life, to your grandfathers and grandmothers, and continue until there comes a time when you lose track of your ancestors. Your existence is due to certain living words coming together to create your parents, so you can say that the result of your existence is due to that group of people; but you can go further and further back in history, to the point where there is not even a person, but rather animals, and further back until they are single-celled organisms... So where would you define the etymology of your being?
_I: It's impossible...
_AM: Unless you go to the common elements that make you exist: phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, silicon... Among others.
_I: The etymology of a being… Ontology.
_AM: Ontology is the study of the general concepts of a Being. It comes from “onto” (entity, being, in Greek) and “logos” (study, concept). In etymology the true origin of things is studied (etymos = truth), so discovering the truth of a being is “ontological etymology”.
_I: And how do you get there?
_AM: There are many ways, but everything can start with one of the few words that do not usually change their meaning over time.
_I: Which ones?
_AM: The Names. The word name is one of the oldest, and whose etymology may be unknown. One of the oldest words in this regard is “naman” or “nimen”, which gave rise to the same word in various languages, from the Semitic languages (ism'), to Sanskrit (nama), Saxon (name), Latin ( nomen), Russian (imya), Greek (onyma). We could interpret that the word comes from two others: “nu-men” (having knowledge of something) or “numu” (assigning, identifying and selecting something). In this case, an object, or a person. However, objects vary according to culture, territory, use, and therefore, they can vary, to stop being what was pre-established. Therefore, proper names are those identifiable names that continue to maintain the original meaning after thousands of years, connecting us with the essence.
_I: Does the proper name really determine what we are?
_AM: Not completely, but it does have a great weight in the vibration that emanates from us. The name with its meaning, its vibration and specific intention for each person, has the purpose of locating us, of locating us on the plane of existence.
_I: That is why God is given so many names, and is known as the One of a Thousand Names, or the 72 Names of God...
_AM: Because your being encompasses all of existence. Now, names were initially used to describe the attributes of an individual, calling them based on how the world saw them, and eventually, the person would choose a name that determined how they saw themselves.
_I: Oh, I remember this, which I thought was fascinating. Up to a certain age, parents or the community gave us a name that identified us in the eyes of the group, and there came a time in life when adults encouraged us to discover what we had inside, how we saw ourselves within the community. community, and we had the task of rebaptizing ourselves, of giving ourselves a new name, as we wanted others to know us from that moment on, and I found it fascinating, because one valued what one was for oneself, and represented that vibration.
_AM: The names used to imitate sounds of animals that had those attributes, or colors and shapes, or plants, so each one felt linked to the attributes of a being of nature.
_I: As we usually know the natives call themselves, names like White Eagle, Brave Bull, Noble Wolf...
_AM: All the names were born like this, but in the languages they were modified over time, until they were unrecognizable today.
_I: And even it seems like they have no meaning, when they do... I have asked certain people what their names mean, and they don't know, or the names of their countries. For me it is usually so important... For example, one day we talked about what Egypt meant, which comes from Aegyptus in Greek, but which is actually a word from the ancient Nile “Het-Ka-Ptah” (house of the creative spirit), but on the other hand, Egypt in Arabic is called Misr, and when I asked people what it means, they said: nothing, just a word and that's it. So I looked it up, and I saw that it means “Wall, fortress,” because of the fortress that surrounded Cairo, as the Arabs saw it.
_AM: What does your name mean?
_I: Matthias comes from the Hebrew “Matiyahu” which means Gift or Gift of God. My middle name, Gustavo, comes from the Germanic “Gost slav”, meaning “Talking Guest”.
_AM: And your last name?
_I: From Stefano, from the Greek “Stephané”, which means “Crowned”, and at the age of 27 I symbolically added that of my father, Bide, from the Basque “Path”.
_AM: “Gift from God, speaking guest, Crowned on the Way”… Interesting.
_I: Why do some of us live life “to the letter”, that is, so aligned with our names, and others not…?
_AM: It is usually due to karma, or resonance. Some names have been imposed and not chosen, some do not know how to use the vibration of their names and live parallel lives fleeing from their paths.
_I: Is it so important, then, to know the meaning of the name?
_AM: It is part of knowing the vibration you represent in the world. Every time you are asked what your name is, and you say your name, you manifest the vibration, and the word creates, so every time you say your name, you create yourself, just like every time someone says your name. , or your nickname, or your last name, is shaping your energy with this vibration. The name determines your resonance in life, so you must know it well, to know why you carry this vibration, and perhaps even if we do not like a name, it has a great positive weight for us, and if it is not, you can always change it, choose another.
_I: My son, my future son, since I was 9 years old, he has told me his name, and I have a conflict with it, because I don't like that name. If I could choose a name, it wouldn't be that one, however, there was a reason he chose it. And it is important to me to respect it. My mother knew my name was Matías before she knew if I was a boy or girl. My grandmother told her: “Claudia, choose a girl's name just in case!” and my mother said no, that she was sure that I was Matías.
_AM: The resonance that occurs in you when you hear your name is one of recognition, because it is like the world and you define yourself since you were little, every cell of your being recognizes itself in that sound, therefore, becoming aware of the name is essential to know what forces are shaping your being.
_I: Sure, it seems silly, but it's not at all. What about those who don't identify with his name, or even hate it?
_AM: It is possible that there is a hard story in relation to karma to be resolved with this name. Changing the name will not change that pain, it will only pass it on to the next generation. For this reason, it is necessary to recognize why it was chosen to come into the world with this code printed on matter, and once the history with the name has been healed, you can choose a new one with full consciousness, from freedom, not from escape.
_I: And... What about the last name?
_AM: In the origin of the tribes, the human herds, the names were personal, chosen by themselves, but certain contexts of confrontations with other herds meant that they had to identify themselves. Therefore, to recognize which family group they belonged to, the name of the patriarch or matriarch was usually added, that is, the person who ruled the family. This is how the idea of naming a person arises by placing a second name composed of “son of” and the name of the person in charge. In the Iberian languages this remains today like all those names ending in “-ez” (López, Juárez, Hernández…), a particle that in Iberian means “son of”, something that for the Slavs is the particle “-ov , -ova” or “-off, offa” (Romanov, Petrov, Lusenhoff), in the towns of central Europe we find “-ich” or “-ic” or “-icz” (Kovazic, Aymerich, Ziolkiewicz), which which in the Nordic peoples is “son” or “sen” (Karlsson, Johnson, Hansen), in the British Isles it is “mc” or “mac” (McDonald, MacKintosh), and also “o'” (O'Neil , O'Ryan). In Romania all surnames ending in “-escu”, and in Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Arabic all those beginning with “Ben” (Ben Gurion) and “Bin” (Bin Tariq) respectively. Over time, families grew and became clans, which made the name of the patriarch or matriarch something fixed, so many had the same surname (form of name = “appelé”, from the French “to call”, or in English “surname” = also from French: above the name). Having a certain surname, then, makes you part of a specific clan, or a slave to said clan.
_I: Slave?
_AM: In colonial times, many mulattoes, blacks, and Asians who were taken to the Americas as slaves acquired the names of their oppressors as surnames, or were called “sons of” who enslaved them, like property. For this reason, surnames such as Jackson, Robertson, Wilson, although others created new names such as “Freeman” (free man) and many others, are characteristic of ethnic groups not native to the Americas, just as surnames ending in “ez” are characteristic of ethnic groups that do not originate in the Americas. Hispanic Americas (Rodríguez, Cortez, Fernández, Juárez). This can help understand certain family connotations of dependence or slavery on each other. In the case of free cultures, families used to name themselves under common concepts that glorified the group, giving themselves imposing names, or those related to the places where they lived. Others, to differentiate themselves, called themselves directly “those from such and such a place,” so their names became toponymic, with the energy of the place. Many were simply recognized for carrying out the same task or trade generation after generation, which is why the family in general was known as “the house of the Blacksmith, the Baker, the Shoemaker”, and that is why there are many surnames with trade names. . During the persecutions by the Inquisition, many minority ethnic groups had to hide, since their documents and names revealed their tradition, origin and religion, which is why many changed their names, usually to objects or plants. Thus, many Jews, Occitans, gypsies and others began to have surnames such as Romero, Roble, Manzano, Pereira, Alameda... Stories of hiding who they are, to survive.
_I: Wow, there is a lot hidden behind the names.
_AM: Each letter is a vibration, like a chemical component. Their combinations, forming a name, generate a DNA, a species, which when adding a surname generates a clan, an intention. Nicknames impose affection or distance between individuals. But all of this conforms to you, vibrationally. The resonance and intention that your name has, the reason why you have been called that way, the etymological origin, its emotional and historical meaning, as well as the reason for being part of a clan with a certain surname, added to the knowledge of vibration of each letter, each word like a song, all of this shapes your energy, makes you who you are...
_I: My name is the lyrics of a song, my life is music, and depending on how I sing it, I will recognize my story, and my potential...
_AM: Your name is a powerful tool that speaks about your past, your present and your future. Each letter has a number, each number represents a process, each sound in each letter awakens a power... Recognize, from the largest to the smallest, the emotions that encompass your name, the sensitivity, the pains, the pleasures, who it is from. He says and how he says it, how you present yourself to the world, what you omit or what you change, everything determines the vibration that constitutes you.
_I: I must, then, firmly say my name knowing what it means, knowing that it shapes me, that it makes me what I am.
_AM: Now that you will say it with full awareness, set the intention to awaken the potential that exists in it.
_I: I am Matías Gustavo De Stefano.
_AM: I am Ghan.