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In the beginning, God was busy creating things which He gave to Adam to name. At first they were mostly animals, and easy to define. But then came more complex objects, and as time passed, the horizon expanded and more words needed to be found. It wasn´t an easy task.

Then came Eve, who also had to take up this essential task of naming objects. As their eyes observed the unfolding surroundings, their skin soaked up sensations through their pores, and their ears were struck with all kinds of sounds.

And so it was that they felt the hardness of an object and called it stone, from which sprang the words stony, sandstone and stoning. They perceived the vastness of their surroundings and called it land, setting the base to the much later use of landscape, landing and landmark.

Adam must have called the color of the celestial vault blue, and Eve was sensitive to the lightness and puffiness of those traveling spots which seemed so delicate to her and she called them by a word so soft that it seems to float: cloud. One night they startled awake, looked at each other and said together: tremor, earthquake. That night they knew and named fear and anguish, and they no longer slept.

But something unsettled them, something for which they could not find the right word. An inexplicable vibration asked to be named. Eve was so pretty when he saw her exploring among the stones and studying the fronds of a fern, thought Adam; Adam looked so vigorous when he climbed up high to reach the ripest fruit, mused Eve. How could you put into words these intimate feelings; what sound could reflect them? It was strange and it was new. To be sure, it was one of the hard words, those that did not come at once.

We do not know who first uttered these words, whether it was Eve or Adam. But from the innermost depths, one of them said for the first time: I like you. And the other one answered: It will be so good.

(Genesis 2:19–20)