From: MrCaws@...
Message: 10010
Date: 2001-10-06
> MrCaws:Yes,I agree with the heavenly body idea for the importance of seven,
> > However, I think the dove makes sense for this version of the
> >story, as doves are involved symbolically in the area
> > I know that doves are connected with the 7 Pleiades, and that a
> >black dove was sacrificed to Pelasgian goddess Dione-There's that
> >blackbird you mentioned
>
> Hmm. Perhaps the white doves have to do with rebirth... or with
> the moon again (bull horns). Hmm. It does seem that "seven"
> is somehow mythologically associated with this goddess figure. I
> had mentioned before the idea of seven astral bodies being of
> importance to early neolithic peoples... but no one bought that on
> the List, sad to say, because most can't escape the common
> contemporary belief that it was the Sumerians that invented
> everything from writing to astrology, rather than this being an
> influence from more northern peoples. As if the Sumerians were the
> inventors of their own civilisation... hahahaha! :P
>
> However, I don't know how else to explain "seven" except as
> originally representing the seven most prominant astral
> bodies in the sky:
>
> Pole Star
> Sun
> Moon
> Venus
> Mars
> Jupiter
> Saturn
>
> In that respect, "seven" symbolically represents the totality of
> creation, and hence, perhaps this is apt for a Supreme Goddess who
> gave birth to the whole universe.