A couple of years ago I began to read heavily about human evolution, and particularly the development of the human brain. There seemed to be a necessity in our predecessors to develop a more complicated representation of the environment in their minds eye. This enabled them to foresee consequences beyond the immediate situation and manipulate ideas and concepts. Language grew from the fertile ground of this type of symbolic thinking, and suffice it to say when it arrived our ability to think abstractly, and therefore consciousness, came with it. Consequently, giving something language is like bestowing consciousness on to it.
Around 40,000 years ago there appears to be an explosion of creativity in art and religion. Many theorists suggest that modern language is directly responsible for this. If so, than we can consider language to be analogous to the divine fire stolen by Prometheus from the gods and given to man. In later interpretations of the myth, Prometheus is the actual creator of mankind, and it seems obvious to think this way. The creator gives us life by endowing us with creativity, and language is the vehicle through which this occurs. But this creates a strange relationship between the creator and the creatie. They appear to embody each other and iterate back and forth.