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By: avenefica

avenefica — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:05:45 +0000

Wow Dove….great resources. thanks!

By: dovelove

dovelove — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:34:12 +0000

Seven days of the week, seven “openings” in the head…

Ah, I just found a long list — there are a lot of them with the body.

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7 Parts to the embryo – Amnion, Chorionic Villi, Spinal Cord, Heart, Brain, Umbilical Cord, Yolk Sac.

7 Parts of the body – Head, Thorax, Abdomen, Two Arms, Two Legs.

7 Parts of the human head – two nostrils, two ears, two eyes and the mouth.

7 Main organs – Brain, Heart, Genitals, Lungs, Liver, Kidney, Stomach.

7 Glands – Pituitary, Pineal, Thyroid, Thymus, Pancreas, Sex, Adrenals.

7 Divisions to the brain – Cerebrum, Cerebellum, Pons Varolii, Medulla Oblongatta, Corpus Callosum, Spinal Cord, Meninges.

7 Parts to the inner ear – Vestibule, Auditory Canal, Tympanic Membrane, Ossicles, Semi-circular Canal, Cochlea, Membranous Labyrinth.

7 Parts to the retina – Cornea, Aqueous Humor, Lens, Vitreous Humor, Retina, Sclera, Iris.

7 Cavaties to the heart – Right and Left Ventrical, Right and Left Atrium, Tricuspid Valve, Mitral Valve, Septum.

7 layers of the skin – Stratum Corneum, Stratum Lucidum, Stratum Granulosum, Prickle Cell Layer, Basal Cell Layer, Corium, Hair Follicle.

7 Bodily functions – Respiration, Circulation, Assimilation, Excretion, Reproduction, Sensation, Reaction.

Source: http://www.endlesssearch.co.uk/philo_lawof7.htm

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This list above says that 7 is used 77 times in the Old Testament.

I think most people view the number 7 as a “lucky” number.

When I see 7 in the Tarot and/or around me, I often consider that it’s about choices. When I first started doing “intuitive” readings for others (before discovering the Tarot), I would often hear during the reading, “It’s your choice.”

Peace,
Dove

By: Mark Alford

Mark Alford — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:12:49 +0000

I didn’t either until I started researching sevens. There are the seven Hathors mentioned in the the Book of the Dead and I think in the tomb of Nefertari. Each cow’s role is to figure out the fate of a newborn. This I found a couple of places. GodChecker.com was the only place I saw (I didn’t go overboard researching that) that has it as being all at the same time.

By: donna

donna — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:15:55 +0000

I didn’t know that Hathor could be seen as seven cows at once! That is significant to me …

By: Mark Alford

Mark Alford — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:44:42 +0000

I’m up for your challenge. Don’t forget the immortal Magnificent Seven (my dad’s favorite movie). From a mythological point of view, you have the Japanese seven gods of good fortune, the Egyptian cow-headed goddess Hathor, which can be seven cows at once, and of course, the seventh daughter in any family is always cursed with lycanthropy. In my search for sevens, I found Uncegila, a Native American dragon that could only be killed by shooting an arrow in the seventh spot on her head. I had never heard about that one, so I researched it and wrote about it on my blog as well (http://bubosblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/uncegila.html)!

By: avenefica

avenefica — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:07:38 +0000

Hi Liara,
Good point. Thanks for your observation.
Namaste,
A.

By: Liara Covert

Liara Covert — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:27:32 +0000

I asked a friend why “7″ was her favorite number. She replied, “well, its my birthdate, but I really have no concrete explanation.” This view reminds us how we need not always explain why we sense good vibes with particular numbers.

Some people are quick to make references to movies like “Seven Years in Tibet (1997)” or “Seven” (the 1995 suspense about ritualistic murders based on perceptions of 7 deadly sins). Films point out the dualistic nature of cultural understandings of the number. Its associated with good (hope) and evil. We each have a choice about creating or defining the vision that makes the most sense to us. It can be a challenge to separate ourselves from other people and their reasons. We are the only master of our own mind.