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Both traditions rule that death changes the legal status of a person's spoken name · the same object, handled with opposite polarity: China seals the dead man's name away from all mouths; Egypt performs ritual speech to keep it in circulation. An inverse rhyme: each preserves the same gap, one as silence, one as recitation.
At death the personal name is withdrawn from speech: 'When the ceremony of wailing is over, a son should no longer speak of his deceased father by his name'; households keep lists of forbidden names, and a guest must 'ask about the names to be avoided' before entering the door.
set against Book of the Dead, ch. XXV
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