In the beginning was, by some accounts, the word. A profoundly unknowable moment, but if things ever did in fact ‘begin’, maybe a word is as good a place as any. But in what language, and with what meaning?

In Christian gospel that moment of creation is refined further to a pinpoint in which ‘the word’ was both godly, and god; a flash of divinity from which the sentences of all existence might form and take flight, simultaneously creating our world and investing it with meaning.