In many cultures of olden times, it was the practice to guard the deities of the tribe or nation most carefully. For the symbols or the name of the god to be captured by enemies was the same as being captured themselves. The Roman armies used this idea to great effect --when they took an image of a god from a captured city and carried it off to Rome, thereafter the priests of that god had to travel to Rome to perform their rites, thus recognising Rome as their new capital. Similarly, to learn the name of someone else's god gave you control over that god and therefore over them. So, the names of gods and goddesses were secret, and none more so than that of the Great Goddess. So secret was this name that our best clues to finding it is the restriction placed on the letters which made up the name. That the name was largely vowels is shown by this avoidance......an avoidance which was continued in written Hebrew. The order of the other letters of the alphabet was also affected from time to time, reflecting theological changes. Because of its great secrecy, the word we seek, occurs very rarely in surviving texts......in fact it is found only twice, once in Plato, and once in Apollonius. That name, rendered in the letters of the time, was...

The alphabet has evolved since that time, and converted to the modern form, the word is Evouia. Plato translates this word for us as life. The greeks of Plato's time would have understood life to include not only all biological living things; but also things of light, such as flames; the stars, and the moon, so they believed her to be the whole universe, a living universe.