He's number seven

1 15. 03. 2018
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Many believe that number seven is something very unusual. And it is true that the seven is the most widespread number in folk culture (seven years of misfortune, seven ravens, seven-mile boots, etc.). Both Rome and Moscow are built on seven hills, and the Buddha sat under a fig tree that had seven fruits.

Why did this number become mystical? We will try to find the answer.

Sacred number

The number seven is directly related to the foundations of all the world's major religions. The Old Testament speaks of seven days (six days of creation and the seventh day of rest), in Christianity there are seven virtues and seven deadly sins. There are seven gates of paradise and seven heavens in Islam, and pilgrims go to Kabbah seven times in Mecca

This number was considered sacred in ancient times, by various nations that had no connection with each other. The Egyptians originally had seven supreme gods, and the number seven itself was a symbol of eternal life and belonged to Osiris. The Phoenicians had seven Kabirs, the Persian god Mithra had seven sacred horses, and the Parsus believed that there were seven angels against whom the seven demons stood, and that the seven celestial abodes corresponded to the seven dwellings in the underworld. The ancient Egyptian teaching speaks of seven states of purification on the path to improvement, and while wandering into the ancient realm of the dead, it was necessary to overcome seven guarded gates. The hierarchy of priests of many Eastern nations was divided into seven degrees.

In almost all lands, seven degrees lead to the altar in temples. There were seven supreme Babylonian gods. In India, the seven stages of the embodied soul are allegorically depicted in the form of seven floors of a classical pagoda, which shrink towards the top. By the way, we'll stop here for a moment…

There is no doubt that all these cases of number seven must have something in common. Something they could see or feel for all peoples, regardless of the conditions and places where they lived.

And something in common could only be the sky above your head! There are seven most glowing heavenly bodies - the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter.

In ancient times, people were dependent on natural conditions that determined future crops. Beneficial rains were welcomed as a gift from heaven and prolonged drought as punishment for transgression. The largest and brightest stars were considered the most important divine powers, and over time they became seven gods.

The seventh day of restHarmony and perfection

The sacred number has gradually penetrated into the ordinary life of the people.

In the Old Hebrew texts we find the rules of agriculture, which led to the land being left fallow for a year. The field was not cultivated every seventh year, and since there was no new crop, debt was forbidden during this period.

In ancient Greece, a soldier who was deprived of his honor was not allowed to appear in public for seven days. The seven-stringed lyre, which belonged to Apollo, born on the seventh day of the month, also appeared there for the first time, according to myths.

Scientific observation has helped to find that stars, visible to the naked eye, already named Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter, are always at the same distance and run along the same orbits.

And so the number seven began to be considered the number of harmony and perfection.

Scientists from different countries have calculated that the Sun is 49 times larger than the Earth (ie 7 x 7) and have recorded the existence of seven basic metals (gold, silver, iron, mercury, tin, copper and lead) in nature. There were also seven famous treasuries and seven cities abounding in gold.

But the most interesting were the discoveries associated with the human body, judge for yourself. The gestation period for women is 280 days (40 x 7), in seven months most children begin to cut their first teeth and at about 21 years (3 x 7) people stop growing.

Even more remarkable is the fact that the time of hatching of birds or gestations in the animal world is often also a multiple of seven. The mice are weighed for 21 days (3 x 7), hares and rats for 28 (4 x 7), and for chickens it is also 21 days.

Ancient experts believed that the human body is renewed every seven years and all diseases develop in a seven-day cycle.

The seventh day is resting

The special attention that has been paid to this issue since ancient times was primarily related to the brightest star in the sky, the moon. We know of four lunar phases that alternate after seven days.

In accordance with the lunar phases, they created the old Sumerian calendar, where each month had four weeks of seven days.

In Babylon, every seventh day, which marked the completion of the lunar phase, was dedicated to the moon god Sinna. They considered this day a risky day, and in order to avoid possible disasters, they established it as a day of rest.

The writings of Claudia Ptolemy (Greek astronomer, 2nd century AD) state that the Moon, as the nearest celestial body, affects everything. This applies to the ebb and flow, the increase and decrease of river levels, as well as the growth and behavior of people or plants. Each nov has an effect on the restoration of nature and the influx of energy in humans.

Thus, the number seven was perceived as most important in the management of cycles and rhythms such as birth, development, aging, and death.

The importance of lunar cycles has now been confirmed by research into the fossils of some algae that lived on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, even before higher life forms. They were found to exist on the basis of seven-day rhythms.

Lost Colosseum

It is also true, however, that our ancestors (and their followers) have not always succeeded in "listing" everything under number seven or its multiples.

For example, there were obviously more than seven great works of art by builders, and in this context various philosophers classified various objects into seven wonders. Sometimes the Colossus of Rhodes is lost from the list, other times the Alexandria Lighthouse or the Colosseum.

A study of the laws of metrics has shown that the longest unrhymed verse (hexameter) is composed of a maximum of six feet; all attempts to add the seventh track led to the disintegration of the verse.

A similar problem occurs in music, the emphasis on the seventh period is also critical for a musical sentence - our hearing perceives it as unpleasant.

Newton, after discovering the color spectrum, was accused of excessive enthusiasm. It turned out that the human eye was unable to see the blue and orange colors in their pure form. However, the scientist was affected by the magic number seven and therefore introduced two additional colors.

Do not sit at the eighth table!

Current research shows that the number seven can be a mystery even in the age of computers.Buildings with a seven

Researchers at the BioCircuits Institute in California have concluded that the seven is somehow equivalent to the maximum capacity of the brain's operative memory. This is confirmed by a simple test, where the task is to compile a list of ten words and then reproduce it by heart. In the vast majority of cases, he will remember a maximum of seven expressions.

Something very similar happens when a couple of stones are squeezed out before the person we try and we ask her to estimate their number at first glance. If the stones are five to six, the error rate is very small, as the seventh appears, the error rate increases. When the stones are even more, an inaccurate estimate becomes inevitable. The brain's operational memory is already filled and the new information gets older.

A Polish researcher, Alexandr Matejko, who deals with the conditions of creative work, came to the conclusion that the optimal number of scientific discussion groups is seven people. A well-known farmer from Cuba, Vladimir Pervicki, who tried to achieve a triple harvest in the 60s, then revealed part of the secret of his success, a group of seven people achieved this.

Sociologists say that more than seven people can talk to one another at one table, as the number increases, falling apart by interest groups.

Do you already understand why Seven Brave or Seven Samurai movies are the number of heroes happy number? You can remember these characters and their names. If there were more heroes, some of them would have fallen out of the memory of the audience. The filmmakers probably did not read the scholarly treatise on the subject, but intuitively felt the situation and believed in the magical properties of the number of harmony and perfection.

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