Gods carry fear’s petrified sound in their very names.
Evidence
The gods cannot take fear away from man, for they bear its petrified sound with them as they bear their names. Man imagines himself free from fear when there is no longer anything unknown. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 40
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Medieval observers recorded Muslim reverent treatment of written God-names as striking practice
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Medieval observers recorded Muslim reverent treatment of written God-names as striking practice