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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Exu Yangi" <exuyangi@...> wrote:

>
> >From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
>
> >
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> >wrote:
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Exu Yangi" <exuyangi@...>

wrote:

> > > No later than Genesis was written down, I suppose, which

contains

> > > the tern shabbath. Is that too late for the word to spread?
> > >
> > >
> > > >Perhaps not four groups of
> > > > seven, but seven groups of four?
> > > >
> > > Like the seven phases of the moon?
>
> Ahem..you missed a piece. The discussion was about an earlier four

day week

> (which seems to have pre-dated the 7- day one) in northern and

central

> Africa. Hence, the seven (yes) four-day weeks which constituted a

full lunar

> period (roughly).

Oops. I just 'proved' they couldn't have had that. Such is the power
of logic ;-)

Torsten