"The third type of property that has come from the intellectual level of being to all things and proceeds all the way to us is the divine names, through which we call upon the gods and by which they are praised. They have been revealed by the gods themselves, cause reversion back to them and, to the extent that there is something luminous in them, lead to human understanding. ... Different peoples partake of these names in different ways: the Egyptians, for instance, have taken such names from the gods in accordance with their native tongue, but the Chaldaeans and Indians have taken their own differently in accordance with their own languages, and in the same way the Greeks have taken theirs in accordance with their own idiom. Thus, even if the Greeks, with divine guidance, call a certain God ‘Briareos’ while the Chaldaeans call him something else, we must suppose that both names are products of the gods and indicate the [same] essence."

Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Cratylus 32.1-10

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