Regardless of whether you are into numerology or just interested in a little bit of different mysteries, it will be difficult without understanding the basics. Today I will talk a little about the symbolism of numbers in fairy tales and myths - without any secret meaning, just what is behind this or that number. “For distant lands”, “Thirtieth kingdom”, “12 labors of Hercules”, “Measure 7 times”, etc.

Zero. In the legends of the peoples of the world, as well as in science, zero appeared much later than other numbers. To some extent, we can talk about the development of a particular society based on when it began to understand the need for the existence of an “empty set.” Initially, zero is non-existence, the primordial ocean of chaos from which life and word are born. What all the myths of the world tell about.

Unit, one. This is the beginning of the reference, following zero and leaving it. That is, a world created from chaos. In philosophical and mystical teaching, one is not the lowest, smallest number, but, on the contrary, the fundamental principle. This is a symbol of unity, integrity, non-division of all things, and all other numbers are less than one, because form part of it.

Two. Two halves of a whole, 2 parts of a unit. Two always denotes polarity, dualism, conflict and the unity of two principles - good and evil, day and night, life and death, man and woman, right and left, black and white. Two brothers, two sisters, opposing each other.

Three. Symbol of the trinity of the world. Everything consists of 3 parts. These are 3 principles in a person - spiritual, mental and physical. 3 spheres - thoughts, feelings and actions. Idea, energy and matter. 3
world - the spiritual world, the world of people and the afterlife. Heaven, Earth, Underworld. Man - House - Space. Later, with the emergence of Christianity and the appearance of the Triune God, the troika became a symbol of the spiritual, heavenly principle.

Four. Symbol of the 4 cardinal directions - east, west, north, south. And four seasons. In contrast to the three, it is a symbol of the earthly principle. Graphically, the number 4 is depicted as a cross or square. And the cross is the oldest sacred sign (even before Christianity). The vertical core of the cross is identified with the World Tree. The swastika is not the one associated with Nazism - but the oldest symbol, which is a rotating cross (look closely - those “tails” at the end of the crossbars represent movement). Thus, the swastika is the rotation of the universe and human life, the change of seasons, the change of age stages of a person.

Five. It's a four (cross) plus a person in the middle of it. Again, long before Christianity. Five is a symbol of a person within the change of “fours” - seasons, time of day, age - infancy, youth, maturity and old age, the four cardinal directions. He chooses what to follow from all the diversity of the world. The East is the sun, a symbol of knowledge, the West is both rest after work and the decline of knowledge and life. North and South are the active and passive sides of human life. The man in the center of the cross also forms the ancient symbol of the “pentagram”, a five-pointed star, which in the upright position is a bright sign of world harmony, and in the inverted position - the dark principle, chaos.

Six. To the cross, which forms 4 directions, 2 more are added - front and back, forming a three-dimensional picture of human existence. The top is unattainable perfection, the bottom is a devastating abyss, the end. On the right is the movement towards truth, on the left is the movement towards knowledge of the secret, the search for oneself. In front and behind are the future and the past (the path traveled), and between them is the person himself. The six horses in fairy tales are the six directions that draw the chariot of human life. The six heads of the dragon are a network of illusions and delusions. Graphically
six is ​​formed from 2 intersecting triangles - the upper triangle is masculine (fire), the lower is feminine (water). The combination of triangles forming a six is ​​the unity of the masculine and feminine principles.

Seven. Completed cycle. Seven days of the week, notes, colors of the rainbow. A palette of colors of human consciousness and soul to create his own universe. In the Middle Ages, the names of the 7 open celestial bodies were correlated with human organs. Brain - Moon, lungs - Mercury, kidneys - Venus, heart - Sun, bile - Mars, liver - Jupiter, spleen - Saturn. Let me remind you that in the geocentric system the Sun revolved around the Earth and was considered only one of the celestial bodies.

Eight. This is a “reinforced four”, a square with a cross in the middle. Complements and strengthens the four. Eight wind directions - Wind Rose, and cardinal directions (North-East, South-West). Following the seven - a completed cycle - the eight signifies a new beginning. Renewal, rebirth, restoration of what was lost.

Nine. The last number in the range from 1 to 10. When multiplying 9 by any number, as a result of adding the resulting digits, the sum will always be 9. 3x9=27, 2+7 = 9; 9x9=81, 8+1=9. Thus, 9 embodies the completeness of all numbers and is a symbol of infinity. The distant kingdom is three times 9, i.e. very far. The tales about the prince’s journey to such a distance for his bride were based on the phenomenon of exogamy - for the sake of purity of blood and healthy offspring, you cannot take a bride from your own environment, because she may be a relative. The hero who goes after the princess does not always return home - often he remains in a new kingdom, where he begins to rule. This symbolizes that he has found the completeness of the trinity of the world and, having comprehended it, reigns in it. It is possible that the Far Far Away Kingdom is not in our reality, but in the transcendental one, symbolizing the search and acquisition of the highest truth.

Ten. This is One and Zero. As I said above, zero is chaos, one is the world that arose from it. Among the Mesoamerican Indians, 10 is a symbol of life and death. The path that began
out of chaos and returned to it. A man born from the womb and ending his journey in the earth. This is the number of completion of travel and return to the starting point. Odysseus wandered for nine years, and returned in the tenth year. Troy was under siege for nine years and fell in the tenth year. In addition, ten is the sum of nine as the number of the circle and the unit of the center, hence its meaning of perfection.

Eleven. The unknown in the new cycle. The path that the ten symbolized has been passed, now behind it is a new unknown beginning. St. Augustine associated this number with sin for the subtle reason that eleven is the perfect number of ten with an excess of one. Eleven is a number that also symbolized danger, conflict, rebellion. Arabs, on the contrary, consider eleven to be the number of knowledge of God, which includes 11 stages: will, that is, mastery of oneself; abstinence and music that bring purification; time, the stage of wandering between awareness of oneself and God; the image of God reflected in every being; end of worry; complete calm and inexhaustible ecstasy; going beyond one's own Self; the opportunity to rise to God; loss of will; coming to God and returning back; constant contemplation, which gives the power to work miracles.

Twelve. This is another completed cycle, infinity, a closed ring. 12 months of the year, 12 apostles, 12 zodiac signs, 12 main gods of Olympus, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 o'clock in the afternoon. The dodecad is a complete cycle, cosmic order. Being equal to 3x4, it means spiritual and temporal order at the same time: esoteric and exoteric. This is the number of zodiac signs and months of the year (six male and six female).

SYMBOLICS OF NUMBERS.

One is a symbol of absolute completeness. This state of things rarely occurs, but when it does, it resembles the heavenly state that precedes the division into good and evil, that is, precedes dualism. The unit number system expresses the simplicity and clarity of the world order. The unit is a symbol of Adam, the first man on Earth, and also a symbol of Christ. The number one corresponds to people born on the 1st, 10th, 19th and 28th of any month. The luckiest days for them are Sunday and Monday. Their lucky stones are topaz, amber, yellow diamond.

Two symbolizes the Moon and means the opposite or a person’s experience of a solitary existence with attendant problems, inevitable analysis, duality, internal splitting and struggle. The sign of deuce is worn by all people born on the 2nd, 22nd, 20th and 29th. Their lucky stones are pearls and all stones of greenish shades: jade, emerald and others.

Three symbolizes the planet Jupiter and means the completion of evolution, as if acquiring the full measure of what is desired. And above all, biological synthesis, the birth of a child and the resolution of conflict. Three, however, like four, came from all possible options for summing one and two. Three has a very strong influence on the history of the Ancient World. The first three patriarchs, from whom all other nations descended, were Shem, Ham and Japheth. People with number three achieve very high positions in any business. Their birth dates are all months with the numbers 3, 12, 21 or 30. The lucky stone is amethyst.

Four is a symbol of order, meaning, however, a certain redundancy in relation to the three. It is no coincidence that the fourth wife of the great king is a symbol of an adulteress, a free woman who is not bound by the bonds of a sacred marriage contract. Four is a stable number formed by double division, which is why both the structure of the soul and the structure of the body were divided into four elements. In the soul - sanguine, choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic: in the anatomical structure - bile, blood, water, lymph. In the topography of the world - zarad, east, south, north. The ancient Greek poet Simonides wrote: “The Supreme Being is a four-pointed being, with four ends in the arms, legs and spirit. From the marriage of three kings and four wives, seven children arose. Then, five children were born from the seven kings. This means that all the descendants of the first three earthly kings are twelve.” Number four people are anyone born on the 4th, 13th, 22nd and 31st. The lucky stone is sapphire.

Five is the symbolism of Mercury, the number of fire, which is often used in alchemy. It means the organic fullness of life, as opposed to the harshness of death. It also has an erotic meaning. People with the number five are everyone born on the 5th, 14th, 23rd.

Six is ​​the symbol of Wiener, a sign of weakness, and is a very ambiguous number. It expresses dualism (2x2 or 3x2). However, like four, it has a certain normative value, in contrast to the liberating tendency of the number five and the mystical (or conflicting) quality of the number seven. People of this number are those born on the 6th, 15th or 24th.

Seven is symbolized by Neptune. Another symbol of seven is water. Because of this, many tend to equate the value of seven with infinity, which is why water is also a symbol of zero. Like all prime numbers, this figure has the property of irreducibility and expresses conflict or complex unity (highest prime number, greatest complexity). Sometimes it is associated with the Moon (since 7x4 = 28 days of the month). The number seven is reduced towards five. For example, the seven biblical brothers had only five children. The Seven Kings are the seven planets known in ancient times. Their children are companions.

Eight symbol of Saturn. The seal of eight is worn by all people born on the 8th, 17th, and 26th.

The number nine has interesting properties. This is the only number that, when multiplied by any number, reproduces itself. For example, nine when multiplied by two gives 18, which in the sum of the numbers that form it again leads to nine (1+8=9). Nine is the most powerful number. The largest number of symbolic rituals are associated with it. At the ninth hour, Christ died on the cross. On the ninth day, the pagans bury their dead.

Ten is sometimes used to symbolize marriage.

Zero, as a decimal multiplier, increases the quantitative strength of a number symbol. In a purely psychological aspect, the number of repeating zeros indicates a passion for greater things.

Symbolism of numbers

Symbolism of numbers- the oldest of all sciences. But it is not called arithmetic, not algebra, and not mathematics. The science of numbers is numerology. A person distinguishes one animal from two, three, ten - higher mammals can also do this. That is why they are called higher. However, they remained mammals, and man became man, because it was not enough for him to learn to count, he also had to comprehend the Number, write it down and give it a philosophical definition. “The world is built on the power of numbers,” said the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who created mathematics. However, few people know that on the basis of numbers he also founded the science of prediction - numerology, or arithmancy.

Nowadays, the science of numbers occupies a rather modest place among the pseudosciences, somewhere between astrology and alchemy. But there were times when scholastics broke their spears in disputes about the place of this or that number in the system of human values.

In numerology, all words, names and numbers can be reduced to unit digits that correspond to certain occult characteristics that affect a person's life. Numerology is used in analyzing a person’s character to determine the extent of weakness, strength and natural talents, to predict a person’s future and his destiny, to choose the best place to live, to discover the most appropriate time for making decisions and for actions. Some people also use numerology to choose partners, for example, in marriage.

Pythagoras and his followers also believed in symbolism of numbers, in that numbers have individual, sublimated qualities. The Greeks wrote numbers with dots, collecting them into geometric shapes. Even numbers could be divided by two and therefore had female "holes", while odd numbers were not divisible and therefore had a male "productive part". Even numbers represented integrity, and odd numbers represented conviction, strength and creativity.

Kabbalists expanded on Pythagoras' concept by using numbers in magic squares for various purposes, as well as to create the "power" of names used in magical rituals. For this they used gematria- a system for detecting secret meaning in words using the digital meaning of letters of the alphabet. Each letter corresponded to a specific number. The numerical value of words was calculated and interpreted in terms of other words with the same digital value.

The first known use of gematria dates back to the time of the ancient Babylonian king Sargon II (8th century BC), who built a wall around Khorasabad 16,283 cubits long, corresponding to the numerical value of his own name. The ancient Greeks used gematria to interpret dreams; this system also appears in the literature of magic. The Gnostics attributed this to the names of the deities Abraxas and Mithras, equating them, since they both added up to 365 - the number of days in a year. The ancient Hebrews used gematria as a form of divination. The early Christians, borrowing the method of gematria, raised the dove as a symbol of Jesus: the Greek word for dove - peristera - formed 801, as did the Greek letters alpha and omega, symbolizing the Beginning and the End. However, it was the Kabbalists who were the first to delve deeply into the study of gematria and bring it to an art form.

In the 13th century, early Kabbalists believed that the Old Testament contained some kind of encrypted text. Gematria was one of the keys to decipher the code. For example, the phrase from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah 9:9: “...from the birds of the air to the livestock, they were all scattered and gone” was interpreted in such a way that not a single traveler would cross Judea for fifty-two years, because the Hebrew word for “beast, livestock” " - behemah - had a numerical value of 52. The entire Bible was counted and interpreted in a similar way. The German Kabbalist scholar Eleazar of Worms made extensive gematric commentaries on the Bible in the 13th century.

Gematria also used to find and interpret the secret, holy name of God, which was believed to have incredible power. Magicians used these Kabbalistic writings to create new words of power for use in witchcraft and spells.

The two main deciphering methods associated with gematria are notarikon and temurah. In notarikon, the first and last letters of a word or phrase were joined together to create a new word or to turn a word into a phrase. Temurakh is the creation of anagrams through the systematic substitution of letters.

Numerology uses only nine numbers, which correspond to the letters of the alphabet - originally Greek (later many modifications were created). The numerological meaning of names and words is summed up, and the digits are added to form one number. Numerology studies the numbers 1 to 9, called prime numbers; their influence on the destinies of people, their hidden meaning (meaning) and the character of persons revealed with their help.

In numerology, all existing numbers are a repetition of these nine, so the number 10 is one (1) plus 0 (that is, ten is practically equal to one); 11 equals two (2) because 1 plus 1 makes 2; 12 is equal to three (3), because it is 1 plus 2 = 3, and so on. Every number, no matter how large, can be reduced to a single digit using what is called natural addition from left to right.

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Since ancient times, numbers have played an important and multifaceted role in human life. Ancient people attributed special, supernatural properties to them; Some numbers promised happiness and success, others could cause a blow of fate. In many cultures, especially Babylonian, Hindu and Pythagorean, number is the beginning of all things. The ancient Indians, Egyptians, and Chaldeans were recognized experts in the use of numbers. For the Chinese, odd numbers are yang, heaven, immutability and auspiciousness; even numbers are yin, earth, volatility and inauspiciousness.

In Christianity, before the teachings of Saints Augustine and Alexander, the symbolism of numbers was poorly developed.

Classical or Pythagorean school.

The founder of the European doctrine of numbers was Pythagoras, who is credited with the saying: “The world is built on the power of numbers.” In his school, knowledge of the properties of numbers was the first step on the path to esoteric knowledge. Numbers, according to Pythagoras, have both quantitative and qualitative features. Studying the properties of numbers, the Pythagoreans were the first to pay attention to the laws of their divisibility. They divided all numbers into even - “male” and odd - “female”, or otherwise “gnomons” and, what is very important, into simple and composite. The Pythagoreans called composite numbers, representable as the product of two factors, “flat numbers” and depicted them as rectangles, and composite numbers, representable as the product of three factors, “solid numbers” and depicted them as parallelepipeds. They called prime numbers that cannot be represented as products “linear numbers.”
The Pythagoreans considered perfect numbers to be numbers that were equal to the sum of their divisors (excluding the number itself), such as 6=1+2+3 or 28=1+2+4+7+14. There are not many perfect numbers. Among single-digit numbers there are only 6; among two-digit, three-digit and four-digit numbers there are only 28, 496 and 8128, respectively. Two numbers having the property that the sum of the divisors of one of them is equal to the other were called “friendly”.

Subsequently, the Greek numerological system was borrowed by Europeans, and later was transferred to Russia.
Almost every world religion has its own “sacred numbers”, and each number symbolizes a certain meaning.

DIGIT "0" has the same symbolism as the empty circle, indicating both the absence of death and the absolute life found within the circle.
For Pythagoras, zero is the perfect form.
In Taoism, zero symbolizes emptiness and nothingness.
In Buddhism it is emptiness and immateriality.
In Islam it is a symbol of the Essence of the Divine.
In the teachings of Kabbalah there is boundlessness, boundless light, oneness.

DIGIT "1" means the primary unity, the beginning, the Creator.

DIGIT "2" means duality.
According to Pythagoras, a dyad is a divided earthly being.
In Buddhism, the two is the duality of samsara, male and female, wisdom and method, the blind and the lame, united in order to see the path and follow it.
In China it is yin, feminine, earthly, unfavorable principle.
In Christianity, Christ has two natures: God and man.
In Jewish tradition - life force.
In Kabbalah - wisdom and self-awareness.
In Hinduism - duality, shakta - shakti.
In Islam it is spirit.

NUMBER "3". The idea of ​​trinity forms the basis of many ancient philosophical and religious teachings. The three-dimensionality of space is associated with three: length-width-height; three-phase substance: solid-liquid - vapor; trinity of time: past - present - future; human (body, soul and spirit), as well as birth, life and death; beginning, middle and end; past, present and future; three phases of the moon; trinity of the World; in many religions, the upper World is the sky, the middle one is the earth, the lower one is water.
Three is a heavenly number symbolizing the soul. This is the number of luck.
In Christianity: Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; unity of body and soul in man and the Church. Three hypostases are the dogma of the Trinity, which is a distinctive feature of Christianity from Islam and Judaism. Therefore, the number "3" is the sacred number of Christianity. The Bible talks about three gifts of the Magi to Christ as God, King and Redemptive Sacrifice, three images of the Transfiguration, three temptations, three denials of Peter, three crosses on Calvary, three days of Christ's death, three appearances after death, three qualities, or theological virtues: Faith , Hope, Love.
In Kabbalah, the three symbolizes understanding, as well as the trinity of the masculine and feminine principles and the mutual understanding that unites them.
In Hinduism - Trimurti, the triple power of creation, destruction and preservation; various triplets of deities; The moon chariot has three wheels.
In Japan, the Three Treasures are a mirror, a sword and a gem; truth, courage and compassion.
In the Chinese character “wan” (three horizontal lines connected by a vertical one), which means the word “prince”, the upper horizontal line symbolizes the sky, the bottom - the earth, the middle - the person who, on behalf of the sky, rules the earth.
In folklore there are three wishes, three attempts, three princes, three witches, fairies (two good, one evil).
Toasts come three times. Three also means fulfillment. Countless are the triplets of deities and powers. Triune lunar deities and trinity goddesses abound in Semitic, Greek, Celtic and ancient Germanic religions.
The main symbol of the three is a triangle. Three interlocking rings or triangles symbolize the indissoluble unity of the three faces of the Trinity. Other symbols: trident, fleur-de-lis, trefoil, three lightning bolts, trigrams. Lunar animals are often tripods, representing the three phases of the Moon.

DIGIT "4" means wholeness, totality, completeness; four cardinal directions, seasons, winds, sides of the square.
In Pythagoreanism, four means perfection, harmonious proportion, justice, earth. Four is the number of the Pythagorean oath.
In Christianity, the number four is the number of the body, while the number three symbolizes the soul. The four rivers of heaven, the Gospel, the evangelist, the main archangel, the main devil. Four church fathers, great prophets, cardinal virtues (wisdom, firmness, justice, moderation). Four winds carrying the One Spirit, four apocalyptic horsemen, tetramorphs (synthesis of the forces of the four elements).
Four is a symbolic number of the Old Testament. The four rivers of paradise forming a cross, four parts of the earth, etc. are found almost everywhere in symbolism. The four can be represented by a quatrefoil, as well as a square or a cross.
In Buddhism, the Tree of Life Damba has four branches, from its roots flow the four sacred rivers of paradise, symbolizing the four limitless desires: compassion, affection, love, impartiality; four directions of the heart.
In China, four is the number of the earth, symbolized by a square. Four rivers of immortality. Four is an even, Yin number. In Chinese Buddhism, there are four celestial guardians who guard each cardinal direction.
In Egypt, four is the sacred number of time, the solar measure. The vault of heaven rests on four pillars. Four funerary urns, placed on the four sides around the deceased, are guarded by the four sons of Horus, who are associated with the four cardinal directions.
In the Jewish tradition, this is measure, beneficence, understanding.
Among the American Indians, this number is most often used as the four cardinal directions. The four winds are represented by a cross and a swastika. Ritual and ceremonial actions are repeated four times.
In Kabbalah, four means memory. The four worlds of Kabbalah, the four directions in space and the four hierarchical levels of the Torah.
In Hinduism, four is totality, completeness, perfection. The Creator, Brahma, has four faces. The temple stands on the four sides of a square, symbolizing order and finality. Four tattvas, four human bodies, four kingdoms of nature (animal, vegetable, mineral, kingdom of mind), four yugas. In a game of dice, a four means a win. Four castes, four pairs of opposites.
The Islamic four include the principle - the creator, the world spirit, the world soul, and primordial matter. They correspond to the four worlds of Kabbalah. There are also four angelic beings, four houses of death.

DIGIT "5"- the number of sacred marriage, since it is the sum of the female (even) two and the male (odd) three.
In the Greco-Roman tradition, five is the number of marriage, love, unity; the number of Venus, with the years of Venus forming groups of five years. Apollo, as the god of light, has five qualities: he is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, one.
In Christianity, the number five symbolizes man after the Fall; five senses; five points forming a cross; the five wounds of Christ; five fish, which fed five thousand people; Pentateuch of Moses.
In Buddhism, the heart has four directions, which, when placed with the center, form a five and symbolize universality. There are five Dhyani Buddhas: Vairochana - Sparkling, Akshobhya - Equanimity, Ratnasambhava - Gem, Amitabha - Limitless Light, Amoghasiddhi - Constant Luck.
The Chinese have five elements, five atmospheric substances, five states, planets, sacred mountains, grains, flowers, tastes, poisons, powerful amulets, cardinal virtues, initiations, eternal ideals, five kinds of relationships within humanity. In the Jewish tradition, five is strength and severity, understanding the essence.
In Kabbalah, five means fear.
In Hinduism, these are five-membered groups of the world, five elements of the subtle and gross states, five primary colors, feelings, five faces of Shiva and twice five incarnations of Vishnu.
Islam has five pillars of faith, five divine presences, five fundamental tenets, five actions, five daily prayers.

NUMBER "6". Means balance, harmony. The most prolific of all numbers (Philo).
In numerology, the number 6 means the union of two triangles - male and female, one of which stands on the base, and the other is turned upside down. This symbol is well known as the Shield of David, a hexagon that appears on the flag of the State of Israel.

DIGIT "7" considered sacred, and divine, and magical, and happy. The Seven was revered many centuries before our era, in the Middle Ages, and is still revered today.
In Babylon, a seven-tiered temple was built in honor of the main gods. The priests of this city claimed that after death, people, passing through seven gates, enter the underground kingdom, surrounded by seven walls.
In ancient Greece, the number seven was called the number of Apollo, one of the most important gods of the Olympian religion. It is known from mythology that the inhabitants of Athens annually sent seven young men and seven young women as tribute to the man-bull Minotaur, who lived in the labyrinth on the island of Crete; Tantalus' daughter Niobe had seven sons and seven daughters; The nymph of the island Ogygia Calypso held Odysseus captive for seven years; the whole world is familiar with the “seven wonders of the world”, etc.
Ancient Rome also idolized the number seven. The city itself is built on seven hills; The river Styx, which surrounds the underworld, flows seven times around hell, which Virgil divides into seven regions.
Islam, Christianity and Judaism recognize a seven-stage act of creation of the universe. However, in Islam the number "7" has a special meaning. According to Islam, there are seven heavens; those who enter the seventh heaven experience the highest bliss. Therefore, the number "7" is the sacred number of Islam.
In Christian holy books, the number seven is mentioned many times: “Whoever kills Cain will have sevenfold vengeance,” “...and seven years of plenty passed... and seven years of famine came,” “and count yourself seven Sabbath years, seven times.” seven years each, so that in seven Sabbath years you will have forty-nine years,” etc. Lent for Christians lasts seven weeks. There are seven ranks of angels, seven deadly sins. In many countries, there is a custom to place seven dishes on the Christmas table, the names of which begin with the same letter.
In Brahminical and Buddhist beliefs and worship, the number seven is also sacred. The Hindus began the custom of giving seven elephants - figurines made of bone, wood or other material - for good luck.
The seven was very often used by healers, fortune tellers and sorcerers: “Take seven bags with seven different herbs, infusion of seven waters and drink seven days in seven spoons...”.
The number seven is associated with many riddles, signs, proverbs, sayings: “Seven spans in the forehead”, “Seven nannies have a child without an eye”, “Measure seven times, cut one”, “One with a fry, seven with a spoon”, “For for a beloved friend, seven miles is no outskirts,” “For seven miles to sip jelly,” “Seven troubles - one answer,” “Beyond seven seas,” etc.

DIGIT "8"- the number of newly found paradise, as well as renewal, restoration, happiness. The eighth day gave birth to a new, perfect man. After seven days of fasting and repentance, spiritual renewal begins on the eighth.
For the Pythagoreans, eight means three-dimensionality and stability.
In the Sumerian-Semitic tradition, eight is the magical number of Heaven.
For Buddhists, number eight is completeness, the totality of all possibilities. Eight symbols of good omen.
For the Chinese, it means the whole, all possibilities in their manifested form, good luck. The Ba Gua are the eight trigrams and pairs of opposites, usually arranged in a circle, symbolizing time and space. Eight joys of human existence.
In Christianity it means restoration and rebirth. The baptistery is usually octagonal, which symbolizes the place of rebirth. The Eight Beatitudes.
In Egypt, eight is the number of Thoth.
For Jews - the number of the Lord; The Temple was consecrated for eight days.
In Hinduism, 8x8 means the order of the heavenly world established on earth. The structure of the temples reproduces the mandala, which is characterized by the same symbolism - 8x8. There are eight regions of the world, eight suns, parts of the day, chakras.
In Islam, the throne that rules the world is supported by eight angels, corresponding to the eight directions and eight groups of letters of the Arabic alphabet.
For the Japanese, eight means many; there are eight gods in the sky.

DIGIT "9" means omnipotence, and represents the Triple Triad (3x3). This is the number of a circle, hence the division into 90 and 360 degrees.
For the Pythagoreans, nine is the limit of all numbers, within which all others exist and circulate. This is a heavenly and angelic number, heaven on earth.
Nine is a sacred number in Scandinavian and ancient Germanic symbolism.
The number nine rarely appears in Christian symbolism. There are triple triads of angelic choirs, nine spheres and circles around hell.
For Buddhists, nine is the highest spiritual power, a heavenly number.
For the Chinese, 3x3 is the most auspicious of all numbers, also meaning the eight directions plus the center as the ninth point, as in the Hall of Light. There are nine fundamental social laws and nine classes of officials.
In the Greco-Roman tradition there are nine gods, and later nine muses.
For the Jews, nine is pure understanding, truth, since nine reproduces itself when multiplied.
In Kabbalah it symbolizes the foundation.

DIGIT "10"- the number of the cosmos, it contains all numbers, and therefore all things and possibilities, it is the basis and turning point of the entire account. It means something all-encompassing, law, order, power. 1+2+3+4=10 - symbolizes the divine; one means a point, two means extension, three (triangle) means a plane, four means volume or space.
For the Pythagoreans, ten is the renewal of a series, perfection.
In Rome, this number was represented by the sign X - a perfect figure, meaning completeness.
Ten is also the number of completing journeys and returning to the starting point. Odysseus wandered for nine years, and returned in the tenth year. Troy was under siege for nine years and fell in the tenth year.
Among the Chinese, the ten is depicted in the form of a cross, the center of which is formed by the hieroglyph chi, which symbolizes the human Self, in front of which lie both paths, yin and yang, this is a perfect figure. The Ten Heavenly Stems (Gan) may be associated with the ten-day week of the most common cycle.
Christians have the Ten Commandments of the Decateuch, the parables of the ten lamps, virgins, and talents. The tithe was dedicated to God.
In Kabbalah, ten is the numerical value of the letter J-yod - the Eternal Word, the first letter of the name of God. Symbolizes brilliant ability to understand, divine support.
In Islam, an important role is played by ushr (tithe), a tax on land holdings, which should go to the general needs of Muslims.

NUMBER "11". Since ten is a perfect number and a law, eleven symbolizes going beyond both and means sin, breaking the law, and danger.

DIGIT "12" personifies cosmic order. This is the number of zodiac signs and months of the year (six male and six female). Twelve o'clock day and night. Twelve fruits on the Cosmic Tree. Additionally, the twelve days of return to chaos at the winter solstice, when the dead return, were celebrated in Rome during the Saturnalia. The twelve days before Christmas have the same symbolism.
This figure is found in Vedic, Chinese, pagan and European symbolism: 12 members in the council of the Dalai Lama, 12 paladins (peers) of Charlemagne, 12 knights of the Round Table.
Christians have 12 fruits of the spirit, stars, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles, 12 gates and stones at the foundation of the Holy City, 12 days of Christmas celebration.
The Egyptians have 12 gates of hell, in which Ra spends his night hours.
The Greeks on Olympus had 12 gods and goddesses, 12 titans.
In Jewish tradition - 12 fruits of the Tree of Life; 12 gates of the Heavenly City; 12 cakes on the temple table, representing the months of the year; 12 precious stones in Aaron's breastplate; 12 tribes of Israel, sons of Jacob.
In Islam, 12 imams, descendants of Ali, rule over the twelve hours of the day.

NUMBER "13". The attitude towards this number has always been special: it was considered either unlucky or, conversely, bringing good luck.
In Christianity, during the evening services of the last week of Lent, thirteen candles (Catholics call them tenebrae) are extinguished one by one, which symbolizes the darkness that came on earth after the death of Christ. The number thirteen is considered unlucky because it is the number of Judas along with Jesus and the apostles. It is also the number of the witches' coven.
Among the Aztecs, this mysterious number was associated with the concept of time, namely, it meant the completion of the time cycle. They believed that the number “13” was somehow connected with heaven. There were thirteen curls in the hair of one of their main deities, and the same number of strands in his beard.
The ancient Chinese built numerous temples in honor of the god Huang Di. The emperor's servants made sacrifices in these temples on the 13th of the first and fifth months of each year.
The holy book "Kabbalah" mentions thirteen evil spirits, the number "13" denoting the serpent, the dragon, Satan and the murderer.
The thirteenth chapter of the Apocalypse concerns the Antichrist and the Beast.
This number is used in fortune telling. There are many superstitions associated with it. In many US hotels there is neither a thirteenth floor nor a thirteenth room. In addition, there is no seat number 13 on American airlines. In a number of large cities in France, houses that must have the serial number “13” are designated by the code 12 bis. Housewives are careful not to seat 13 guests at the table.
It is suggested that this is related to memories of the Last Supper; when during the last meal of Jesus Christ, in addition to the twelve apostles surrounding him, there was also a thirteenth - the traitor Judas.

"40". Means trial, test, initiation, death. The special significance of forty days apparently dates back to Babylon, where the forty-day period of disappearance of the Pleiades from the sky was a time of rains, storms and floods and was considered dangerous. The Romans kept arriving ships in quarantine for forty days, and the word itself is derived from the word “forty.”
The temples of the Persians, Tatars, Baalbek, the temples of the Druids, the temple of Ezekiel had forty columns. In Christianity, forty days from Easter to Ascension are the period of inviolability and the time of the right to asylum. In the Old Testament, Moses spent forty days at Sinai; Elijah hid for forty days; For forty days the rain of the Flood fell; forty days of trial of Nineveh under Jonah; the Jews wandered in the desert for forty years; walked under the yoke of the Philistines for forty years; David and Solomon reigned for forty years; For forty years Elijah judged Israel. The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel speaks of a vision in which God commanded the prophet, during the forty years of iniquity of the house of Judah, to lie on his right side for forty days.
Osiris was absent from Egypt for forty days after his death; this is a period of fasting.
In Islam, forty is the number of change and death, but also of reconciliation and return to principle. Mohammed was called at the age of forty. The Koran is read every forty days.
In Mithraism, forty is the number of days of the initiation rite, festivals and sacrifices.

"60". Time number (60 minutes and 60 seconds).
In Egypt it symbolized longevity.
In China, it is a cyclic number, symbolizing the sexagesimal cycle, known in the past in the West as the Chinese cycle. The interaction of the alternating Ten Heavenly Stems and Twelve Earthly Branches is structured in such a way that the cycle ends in the sixtieth year, when all combinations are exhausted, and then repeats again. Six cycles are approximately equal to a tropical year.

"70". In Jewish symbolism, seventy branches of candelabra represent the Decans - twelve zodiac divisions of seven planets into tens. Seventy years is the length of a human life.

"666". In Christianity - the sign of the Beast, the Antichrist.
In Kabbalah, 666 is the number of Sorath, the solar demon opposing Archangel Michael.

"888". According to the numerical value of the Hebrew letters, this is the number of Jesus, as opposed to 666 - the number of the Beast.