Heidegger asserts that the basic feature of the saying word is celebration. Poetry, and language as such, is therefore essentially a commemoration. If language is to be regarded as communication at all, it is the communion of gods and mortals that comes to pass in language. The river from the river poems of Hölderlin is the "between" that poetizes the relation between humans and gods. As the between it is a destiny and is also expressed poetically as a "festival" or wedding of gods and humans. This feast is "uncanny" in as far as it celebrates the relative strangeness to each other of humans and gods, humans' finitude and their beyond. Truth as un-concealment implies a thinking of or commemoration of one and another.