The 0th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Declare.

Declarations presume both explicit local authority and, in general, completeness. Our intelligences collapse when presented with explicit or complete models of identity, meaning, value or relation.

One can imagine an ancient people who were extremely aware of the dangers of reference »in general, and thus resisted the ‘temptation’ to refer directly «at all… carefully preserving both the inherent incompleteness of representational thought, and the implicitly mysterious nature of experience and perception.