4. days of the week. why are there seven days of the week? snow white and the 7 dwarfs 7 hills of...
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4. Days of the week
Why are there seven days of the week?
• Snow White and the 7 dwarfs• 7 hills of Rome• Seven liberal arts• Seven sages• Seven wonders of the ancient world
Bible
• 7 days of creation• 7 years of plenty, 7 years of famine in Pharao’s
dream• The walls of Jericho fell on day 7• 7 last words of Jesus on the cross• 7 sacraments, 7 virtues, 7 capital sins• Jesus says to Peter to forgive 70x7 times
Islam
• 7 heavens• 7 circumambulations around the Kaaba in
Mekka• 7 fires in hell• 7 doors to hell
cats
• In English are said to have 9 lives
• In romance languages are said to have 7 lives
music
• 7 note scales
movie
• The magnificent seven• The seven year itch (Marilyn Monroe)• The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)• The seventh seal (Bergman)• Secret agent 007• Seven years in Tibet
Harry Potter
• Harry has #7 in his Quidditch team• A quidditch team consists of 7 players• Harry is born in the seventh month• There are 7 books in the series• Ginny is 7th child• 7 years of school at Hogwarts• Lord Voldemort split his soul in 7 parts
7
• Is the sum of any two opposite sides of a standard die
• When rolling two standard six-sided dice, seven has a 6 in 36 probability of being rolled, the greatest of any number.
astronomy
• The number of stellar objects in the solar system, visible to the naked eye from the Earth:
1. Sun2. Moon3. Mars4. Mercury5. Jupiter6. Venus7. Saturn
Pythagoras
Ptolemaic cosmos
Musica universalisMusica universalis (lit. universal music, or music of the spheres) is an ancient
philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies—the Sun, Moon, and planets—as a form of musica (the Medieval Latin name for music). This 'music' is not literally audible, but a harmonic and/or mathematical and/or religious concept. The Greek mathematician and astronomer Pythagoras is frequently credited with originating the concept, which stemmed from his semi-mystical, semi-mathematical philosophy and its associated system of numerology of Pythagoreanism. According to Johannes Kepler, the connection between geometry (and sacred geometry), cosmology, astrology, harmonics, and music is through musica universalis [1].