I was racking my brain for a Sphinx name,
I looked up old Coptic and Egyptian words for ‘cat’,
and they kinda suck in the Latin alphabet, so here’s my counter-argument!
Old Gargoyle:
Must you humans name everything? Nothing’s real to you ‘til you’ve named it, given it limits.
Elisa Maza:
It’s not like that. It’s just that, well… things need names.
Old Gargoyle:
Does the sky need a name? Does the river?
Elisa Maza:
The river’s called the Hudson.
Hudson:
Fine, lass. Then I will be ‘the Hudson’ as well.
Elisa Maza:
Great, Hudson it is!
*~ Gargoyles s01e03 - Awakening (part 3)*