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Numerology is any belief of a divine or mystical relationship between a number and an event or property.

Numerology is any belief of a divine or mystical relationship between a number and an event or property.

For example, the 3 was frequently used in judeo-christian, norse and egyptian beliefs.

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What is the importance of the number seven in mythology and religion?

Similar question Why is 12 such a holy number? 7 is one of the most important number in history. It would be hard to ignore : The seven days of the week The seven deadly sins The lucky 7 The seven wise men of Greece Why is 7 such an important…
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Why is 12 such a holy number?

In many religions, such as the Greeks, the number 12 is considered holy and sacred for many generations. There are 12 main gods in Greek mythology, Odin had 12 sons in Norse mythology, 12 disicples of Christ in Christinaity, and 12 Imams in the…
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How did the importance attached to the number seven originate?

I was reading Why 7? on SFF, and it got me thinking. I know that there are plenty of occurrences of the number 7 (see for example Wikipedia), some for quite a long time, for example the seven deadly sins of Christianity. In popular (western)…
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Why 1000 years and not 900 or 800 years for kitsune to ascend to heaven?

After reaching 1,000 years of age gaining its ninth tail, a kitsune turns a golden color, becoming a 'Tenko' (天狐 "heavenly fox"/"celestial fox"), the most powerful form of the kitsune, and then ascends to the heavens. Kitsune are presumably…
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Which Mesopotamian gods had sacred numbers?

In ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform, there were a few different ways of writing a deity's name. You could spell it out, you could write one of their divine purviews, or you could use a "sacred number". If you wanted to talk about the sun-god Shamash,…
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Does Czernobog have anything to do with the number 7?

I know Czernobog, the Slavic god of darkness, mainly from Neil Gaiman's novel "American Gods". There is a scene in which Czernobog, Anansi (African spider god and trickster) and Shadow (the son of the Norse god Odin) each move into a motel room.…
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Where does Marsilio Ficino write that all nations refer to God with a four-letter name?

I have seen quoted in the name of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), also spelled Marcellus Ficin, that all nations of the world worship a God whose name is spelled with four letters. Does anybody know where this might occur in Ficino's writings and if…
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Is there any superstitious associations between the number eleven and evil?

We're all familiar with various superstitious ideas that consider the number 13 unlucky. But is there any such associations with the number 11? I've found Kabbalistic sources that connect the number 11 to the sitra achara ("the other side" in…
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