Many will remember the coverage given to the June 6, 2006 as some related it to what St. John writes in Revelation 13:18 which gives 666 as the number of Beast.
Others recall news and headlines some day July 7, 2007, because among other things, the number of marriages that took place at that time quadrupled other dates, the reason was very simple, this date contains three sevens (7-7-7) and the number 7 is associated with good luck, and such aid to the hope that marriage is for life and is full of love and prosperity, is not more.
culture to China, the number 8 has properties that we predict good fortune and not by chance that the next Olympic Games, organized in the nation, will be inaugurated on August 8, 2008, ie the day 8-8-8. In addition, the ceremony opening will begin at 8:08 pm
Humans have an almost infinite capacity to dream, to give life to inanimate objects and create parallel universes in our imagination, that the open eyes magically disappear. We plow with fire plows, as Jorge Debravo , suddenly we get drunk from blue at the same table sharing the delightful poetry of Julian Marchena and we know that never gets darker when will dawn, as we are reminded Isaac Felipe Azofeifa. We are able to prove that the universe expands, the atoms can disintegrate, and yet we are so naive to believe that love is housed in the heart and an arrow of Cupid enough to be born and flourish.
Many people and cultures have endorsed some numbers properties ranging from the divine to the satanic, as if they loved that store some kind of genetic information and reveal it in small doses. Well, some numbers that satisfy certain property have been studied and in some cases, have been related to religion, superstition, luck and even magic, as mentioned with the 666, 777 or the 888.
As a preamble to future contributions and new entries, today I want to refer to the number 7, which incidentally is one of my "favorites." To start, note that 7 is the capital sins (pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth), obviously are 7 virtues (humility, generosity, chastity, patience, temperance, charity, and diligence that are opposed, respectively , the deadly sins), 7 Sacraments, 7 the "lives" of cats (some say 9 lives), 7 days a week, 7 sages of old and 7 wonders of the world, there are 7 notes music and 7 rainbow colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet), in Islam there are 7 stages or heavens and Hinduism, there are 7 chakras in the human body also are 7 Archangels the . In Greek mythology, the Minotaur which Minos imprisoned in the labyrinth built by Daedalus, is offered each year 7 boys and 7 maidens of Athens. Of course the most famous dances we Dance of the 7 veils and most successful sailors, including Sinbad are those who have crossed the 7 seas (although there are more than 40 mares).
Others recall news and headlines some day July 7, 2007, because among other things, the number of marriages that took place at that time quadrupled other dates, the reason was very simple, this date contains three sevens (7-7-7) and the number 7 is associated with good luck, and such aid to the hope that marriage is for life and is full of love and prosperity, is not more.
culture to China, the number 8 has properties that we predict good fortune and not by chance that the next Olympic Games, organized in the nation, will be inaugurated on August 8, 2008, ie the day 8-8-8. In addition, the ceremony opening will begin at 8:08 pm
Humans have an almost infinite capacity to dream, to give life to inanimate objects and create parallel universes in our imagination, that the open eyes magically disappear. We plow with fire plows, as Jorge Debravo , suddenly we get drunk from blue at the same table sharing the delightful poetry of Julian Marchena and we know that never gets darker when will dawn, as we are reminded Isaac Felipe Azofeifa. We are able to prove that the universe expands, the atoms can disintegrate, and yet we are so naive to believe that love is housed in the heart and an arrow of Cupid enough to be born and flourish.
Many people and cultures have endorsed some numbers properties ranging from the divine to the satanic, as if they loved that store some kind of genetic information and reveal it in small doses. Well, some numbers that satisfy certain property have been studied and in some cases, have been related to religion, superstition, luck and even magic, as mentioned with the 666, 777 or the 888.
As a preamble to future contributions and new entries, today I want to refer to the number 7, which incidentally is one of my "favorites." To start, note that 7 is the capital sins (pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth), obviously are 7 virtues (humility, generosity, chastity, patience, temperance, charity, and diligence that are opposed, respectively , the deadly sins), 7 Sacraments, 7 the "lives" of cats (some say 9 lives), 7 days a week, 7 sages of old and 7 wonders of the world, there are 7 notes music and 7 rainbow colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet), in Islam there are 7 stages or heavens and Hinduism, there are 7 chakras in the human body also are 7 Archangels the . In Greek mythology, the Minotaur which Minos imprisoned in the labyrinth built by Daedalus, is offered each year 7 boys and 7 maidens of Athens. Of course the most famous dances we Dance of the 7 veils and most successful sailors, including Sinbad are those who have crossed the 7 seas (although there are more than 40 mares).
On the other hand, The Bible are many passages where the number chosen is not random, for example, in Genesis 41:15-29, it speaks of 7 thin cows and 7 fat cows, in Chapter 6 of Revelation, are 7 seals are broken before they unleash the wrath of God and the angels will be 7 also that the 7 trumpets sounded to send the 7 punishment for the unjust, in the 7 horns. There are 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 11:2): wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of God. In Revelation 15:1 it is written: " saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven plagues, for in them is God's wrath "of course we should not confuse these 7 with the 10 plagues that struck Egypt in the Exodus. Although actually were ten evil that Pharaoh was warned, in some states that references from only a quarter were suffered by the Egyptians and not Israelites, but the primary source, the Exodus, there is no evidence that had been the case in any event, listening to the popular saying that someone dropped the 7 plagues of Egypt when he leaves it all wrong in a long time. Other examples on the magic of numbers, you can read in Genesis 2:3, Matthew 18:21-22 and Job 1: 2-3 and 2:13.
Para muchos, el número 7 es mágico, es la unión de lo divino y lo terrenal pues es la suma del 3 y el 4, conocidos como el número divino y el número terrestre respectivamente.
En los cuentos infantiles, por ejemplo, los 7 enanos de Blancanieves o el Sastrecillo Valiente que mata a 7, moscas y no gigantes, de un solo golpe, entre otros cuentos. Además, autores como Isaac Asimov , Martin Gardner , Carl Sagan , Magnus Enzensberger con su bella obra The Number Devil (1997), Jules Verne , among many others, have used the magical quality of the numbers to mesmerize and delight all readers. The same JK Rowling does along its entire Harry Potter series, consisting of 7 books, for example, in "Half-Blood Prince", where he mentions the possibility of dividing the soul in 7 parts as "... the magic number seven is the most powerful ...."
In the film, which is known as the seventh art , we have, just to name seven films: Seven Years in Tibet , White and the Seven Dwarfs , Seven , Seven Brides for Seven Brothers , The cat's nine lives , Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa and Bergman's iconic film , The Seventh Seal in which a crusading knight challenges Death to a game of chess while seeking answers to key questions of life.
What is written here only for the purpose of, first, encourage curiosity about numbers and, secondly, providing us with details that we often long. Thus, this space is open to discuss the good or bad fortune of numbers, think about whether you believe or not a Tuesday 13 or Friday 13 is unlucky, then we talk ...
" Behind the walls, play the gods;
play with numbers, of which the universe is made " Le Corbusier
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