From: petusek
Message: 34204
Date: 2004-09-18
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: IE right & 10
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> On 04-09-16 15:11, andrew_and_inge wrote:
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> > Depends how far you want to disseminate it. West Asia, North Africa
> > and Europe all came under Mesopotamian influence, and I think they
> > were the source of both the 7 starred pleidides and the 7 dayed
> > week, and probably various other "7" things. The question I think
> > being put was which of these things was the one that clicked and
> > made 7 important. Did people see 7 stars because 7 was already
> > sacred for another reason?
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> Among the various magnificent sevens we further have the seven stars of
> the Plough/Big Dipper and the seven bright stars of Orion (both looming
> large in the folklore of many cultures). Once you consider 7 a special
> number, all or any of these things may become sacred. It seems to me,
> however, that the length of the lunar quarter is likely to have been the
> original magical seven, even if it's actually 7.38465 days. People have
> certainly been interested in the lunar cycle since time immemorial, and
> even the most widespread IE term for the moon, *méh1-not-/-n(e)s-
> testifies to the IEs' familiarity with some sort of lunar calendar.
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> Piotr
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