As west means 'death' (and east 'birth') I suppose that autumn equinox would be the right time for those seven to come 'alive', not spring equinox. And the ancient Egyptians focused on 'death' too (as in e.g. the Book of the Dead). Number 7 for me nowadays means the earth we live in, with light and shadows, expressed e.g. as yin and yang. A world which cannot be described correctly by logic. "Science explains nothing. ... It can only reduce to simpler and more concise terms our crude descriptions of phenomena which in the last analysis, are perhaps inexplicable. (R.G. Smith, 1962)" (Arctic Sky) I think I will update my model of cosmos:
Earth has its light from the sky (5) and this light determines four corners (4), but in the dark there are 3 (phases of the moon when we can see her), i.e. we should think 7 (= 3 + 4). We can then combine 7 with 5 and reach 12 (3 is already incorporated in 7). 13 may be explained by adding the sun (6) to 7. And 9 (= 3 * 3) may be explained as a definite pointer to exclusively the world below earth (not the dark half of our own world). It all began with 3, 4 and 5. 32 + 42 = 52. 16 is also a description of our 'earth', squeezed between the world below and the world above. We are squeezed between darkness (winter solstice) and light (summer solstice). In between we find ourselves, at the 'equinoxes'. That is where 'life' is. That is where changes are seen most clearly, where changes are 'quick'. Our 'world' is the world of half shadow, half light. Only at dawn and at sun-down we are really awake, at the edge. During night we sleep. During the hottest time of the day we have siesta. We are lazy, half-dead, with too much light. Nowadays we live in the 'Darwinian period' and have forgotten, are blinded. I believe the Age of Enlightenment started earlier though, perhaps with Occam's razor; intending to cut away the murky parts but ending up with eliminating also the unclear (shadows), making contrast and ignorance impossible. Only from a state of ignorance can anything be learned. |