He is named Otter, Dweller in the Waters, among men.

Once we had other names." "Tell us the other names, O Shepherdess." "Once in the far past I was named Brightness, I was named Dawn, I was named Daylight.

Once in the far past he was named Silence, he was named Terror, he was named Darkness.

Yet at the beginning we had other names.
Perchance ye know them, Ministers of the Snake." "Perchance we know them, O thou who art named Shepherdess of Heaven, O thou who wert named Brightness, and Dawn, and Daylight; O thou who art named Dweller in the Waters, and wert named Silence, and Terror, and Darkness! Perchance we know them, although they be known to few, and are never spoken, save in utter gloom and with hidden head.

But do ye know them, those names of the beginning?
For if ye know them not, O Beautiful, ye lie and ye blaspheme, and ye are food for the Snake." "Seldom through all the years have those holy names been spoken save in utter darkness and with covered heads," Juanna answered boldly; "but now is the new hour, the hour of the coming, and now they shall be called aloud in the light of day from open lips and with uplifted eyes.
Hearken, Children of the Snake, these are the names by which we were known in the beginning: _Aca_ is my name, the Mother of the Snake.