7
15 years ago
General
7 is the magical hour, the hour where "it" can be created. 7 is the atomic number of Nitrogen. The number of stellar objects visible to the naked eye (the sun, the moon, mars, mercury, jupiter, venus and saturn). The number 7 has always been big in religion, in christianity it starts with the seven days of creation. Cain shalll be avenged sevenfold. Seven years of plenty and seven years of famine. Sin sacrifice: the anointed priest sprinkles the bullock's blood seven times before the lord. Seven year cycle around the years of jubilee. Jericho's walls fall on the seventh day after seven priests with seven trumpets march around the city seven times. Seven deadly sins. Seven pillars of the house of wisdom. Seven loaves become seven basketfulls of surplus. Seven last words of jesus on the cross. In revelation seven spirits of god and seven churches. Revelation: seven lampstands, stars, torches of fire, seals, angels and their trumpets, last plagues, golden bowls, thunders, horns and eyes, diadems and kings. The seven sacraments in the catholic faith, seven gifts of the holy spirit, seven joys of virgin mary, seven corporal and spiritual acts of mercy, seven virtues (chastity, temperance, charity, dilligence, kindness, patience, and humility) in the genealogy in the gospel of luke jesus is the 77th in a direct line, the number of heads of the three beasts, seven suicides mentioned in the bible. Hinduism: seven promises, seven rounds in hindu weddings and seven reincarnation, seven worlds in the universe, seven seas in the world, and seven gurus, sevenhills god, seven chakras. Islam: number of ayat in surat al-fatiha, number of layers of the earth, number of skies, the number of circumambulations that are made around the kaaba, the number of walks between al-safa and al-marwah mountains seven times during the ritual pilgrimages in hajj and umrah, the number of heavens and hells, number of doors to hell (number of doors to heaven is eight), seven fat cows dreamt to have been devoured by seven skinny cows and seven green spiikes, and others shriveled, number of big sins (polytheism, witchcraft, the killing of the soul, consuming riba, consuming the wealth of the orphan, to escape from the battles and slandering chaste women), judaism: a highly symbolic number alluding to the infusion of spirituality and godliness into creation (god rested on and sanctified the seventh day, proverbs of solomon, a seven day purification period is required for one who has become tamei to become tahor, the shmita year arives every seven years, the jubilee year comes after seven times seven years, the courting of the omer leading up to the giving of the torah is expressed as "seven times seven weeks", seven days of passover and sukkot, the weekly torah portion is divided into seven aliyahs, and seven jewish men are called up for the reading of these aliyahs during shabbat morning services, seven blessings are recited under the chuppah, during a jewish wedding ceremony, a jewish bride and groom are feted with seven days of festive meals after their wedding known as sheva berachot, the number of ushpizzin who visit the sukkah during the holiday of sukkot (abraham, isaac, jacob, joseph, moses, aaron, and david, the number of nations god told the israelites they would displace when they entered the nation of israel (hittie, girgashite, amorite, canaanite, perizzite, hivite, and jebusite) seven orrificces of the face are called "seven candles", the menorah is a seven branched candle lit by olive oil, the israelites circled jericho for seven days and the walls crumbled, the seven sephirot. Other: the number of archangels in some systems, the minor symbol number of yang in taoism, the number of palms in an egyptian sacred cubit, the number of ranks in mithraism, cherokee cosmology, the seven valleys (love, knowledge, unity, contentment, wonderment, true poverty and absolute nothingness) buddha walked seven steps at birth, circle seven korahn, seven life cat, seven lucky gods, in khassi mythology the seven divine women who became the ancestresses of all mankind, the number of gateways traversed by inanna on her way to the underworld, seven sleepers, seven mothers, number of sages in hindu mythology, number of main islands of atlantis, the number of leagendery monsters in guarani myth, cuchulainn, every seven years the queen of the fairies pays a tithe to hell in the tale of tam lin, the seventh glyph in the mayan calandar is blue hand, it represents the days in creation and is associated with creative perfection, this is the glyph of the last day of the calendar dec. 21 2012. The seven branched sword in korean myth. ... And probably a whole bunch of other stuff ^^
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