In working up an article for Mark Thompson's anthology of faerie,
happened upon a diary with dates, and found for 1984:

"
12 Sep Performance of Mahler's Eighth on its 74th anniv. with SF Symphony.
13 Sep Naming Circle at Touchstone (981 Haight St. in San Francisco,
[home of Mica] Wm Stewart, Lin Maslow) for
the non-profit religious org: `` NOMENUS '' is named.
"

I recall the process that we all lay down on the floor in darkness and vocalized syllables and names.
Some influences were Om, Phallos, Omphalos (the navel of the world at Delphi),
Nomen (Latin for "name") and so on.

David Kerlick, before he took on the name Persimmon in 1985.