The central space of a basilica-plan church is known as the:

The nave is the central part of a basilica style church. The nave is flanked on either side by aisles. The basilica style started being implemented first in roman public houses and government chambers and was adopted into church design with the rise of the catholic empire. 

In the poem "Twelfth Song of the Thunder," the Navajo people consider the voice of thunder and the voice of the grasshopper equally important. The narrator makes reference to the cycles of nature that make the land beautiful: the sound of thunder and the sound of the grasshopper, which are described with the same intensity.