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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
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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: • Sun • Moon • Mars • Mercury • Jupiter • Venus • Saturn
Musicauniversalis Musicauniversalis (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].