[tied] Re: Why borrow 'seven'? (was: IE right & 10)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

>
> Loreto:
> > And of course the seventh day as another layer of renewal? After
> > three of three days? That was maybe before we named the seven

days in

> > accordance with the sun, moon and the five planets.
>
> I think everybody now is going off focus. Back to the neolithic,
> we see the first agriculturalists. If hunter-gatherers didn't have
> use for calendars or astronomy (which may be debated against, btw),
> farmers most certainly did. It's inevitable that astronomers will
> observe the repetition of the lunar cycle. The lunar cycle is

nothing

> other than the revolution of the moon around the earth. It's also
> inevitable that they will find that the only whole numbers that
> will divide the month up the best are 7 and 4. Whether we think that
> four-day weeks or seven-day weeks are the oldest is, I think, moot.
> The point is that these two numerals in some way figured into the
> division of the monthes in ancient cultures. How could it not? You

do

> the math.
>
>

Sun, moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. Number and names of
days of the week = number and names of heavenly moving bodies, each
embedded in a translucent sphere, all within a fixed sphere holding
the fixed stars.

Torsten