From: tgpedersen
Message: 34180
Date: 2004-09-16
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Exu Yangi" <exuyangi@...> wrote:explain
> > >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> > >wrote:
> > >Within the lunar month the moon has four phases, each about a
> > >week 7 days long. That's sacred for ya.
> > >
> > >So perhaps a tendency to become a taboo word. That might
> > >the independent Uralic borrowings from different branches of IE.seems
> > >
> >
> > Perhaps, although the breaking up into FOUR groups of seven
> fairlytwo
> > arbitrary. Why not 3 groups (new, 1/3, and 2/3), or even just
> (new/full)stock.
> > ? The seven day week seem a new thing, although there are
> evidences of four
> > day weeks from northern and central Africa. Perhaps not four
> groups of
> > seven, but seven groups of four?
> >
> > As for being a taboo word, and hence borrowed from elsewhere ---
> usually
> > taboo words find their replacements from within the native
> Withnessthis
> > Japanese shi (death;four) being replaced from another counting
> heirarchy.
>
> As the ancient semitic culture also spread the idea of a calendar
> with 4 weeks per month this seems no problem. Business people and
> especially ones who travel, need calendars.
>
> Keep in mind that by calling the importance of seven totemistic
> discussion downplays the fact that ancient people did notof
> distinguish like we do between knowledge one has to have faith in,
> and knowledge simply. The calendar and stories about which things
> are sacred, like the moon, were both ways of describing what only
> later got to be called nature. In other words, this understanding
> weeks also spread because it was useful, not just because the moonI know. It was their version of quantum mechanics.
> was considered sacred.
>
> ...or so it seems given the evidence we now have.
>