THE tales at the back of OUR ICONIC NUMBERS
Rogerson's booklet of Numbers is predicated on a numerical array of virtues, non secular attributes, gods, devils, sacred towns, powers, calendars, heroes, saints, icons, and cultural symbols.
It presents a stunning mass of data for these intrigued via the various roles numbers play in folklore and pop culture, in song and poetry, and within the many faiths, cultures, and trust structures of our world.
The tales spread from thousands to 0: from the variety of the beast (666) to the seven lethal sins; from the twelve indicators of the zodiac to the 4 matches of a deck of playing cards. alongside the way in which, writer Barnaby Rogerson will express you why Genghis Khan outfitted a urban of 108 towers, how Dante cast his Divine Comedy at the quantity 11, and why 13 is so unfortunate within the West while fourteen is the quantity to prevent in China.
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They're occasionally depicted like a winged spirit of victory, occasionally like a Medusa determine dripping with gore and a scalp sprouting a mane of beating serpents. three GRACES Aglaea Euphrosyne Thalia In ascending order of age we've Aglaea (Splendour), Euphrosyne (Mirth) and Thalia (Good wellbeing and fitness or happiness). the 3 sisters were obsessively painted and sculpted for hundreds of thousands of years because the embodiments of attractiveness, allure and creativity. because the benign face of the traditional triple goddess, even Hesiod and Homer can appear imprecise approximately their origins, and so there are conflicting tales of them being the daughters of both Aphrodite, Apollo, Zeus or Dionysus. just like the Furies, their chapel stood within the caves round the Acropolis, the place historic mysteries have been played. the 3 Graces from a fresco exposed at Pompeii. three GORGONS Stheno Euryale Medusa Stheno (the mighty), Euryale (the far-springer) and Medusa (the queen) have been, back, old points of the triple goddess in her damaging, vengeful shape, notwithstanding they have been later demoted in scale to malevolent creatures. Perseus’s homicide of Medusa may be learn as a mythic rationalization of the toppling of the outdated female-ruled universe by means of a brand new breed of priest-warriors. notwithstanding, the facility of the outdated ideals doesn’t wane simply: Medusa’s blood changed into serpents whilst it penetrated the floor, and gave delivery to the winged horse Pegasus whilst it met the ocean. three GODDESSES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA Al-Lat Al-Uzza Manat those goddesses have been worshipped at a trio of shrines round Mecca until eventually they have been destroyed via the triumph of Islam, an occasion at once attested to within the Koran (Surah fifty three, 19–22). Nabataean inscriptions additionally make connection with this trinity, naming Al-Lat because the mom Goddess of prosperity, Al-Uzza because the strong one and Manat as ‘the other’, ‘fickle’ or ‘fate’. THE TRIPARTITE progressive VIRTUES Liberty Equality Fraternity not anything has ever fairly matched the elan of idealism expressed in those tripartite watchwords of the French Revolution, which turned the nationwide motto of the state. they're attributed to a Parisian printer, Antoine-François Momoro, even though on the time of the Revolution there have been numerous editions, and lists could contain Amitié (Friendship), Charité (Charity) or Union – and there has been frequently a qualifier – ‘ou los angeles Mort’ (or death). The latter was once discreetly dropped after the Reign of Terror. 3-LEAVED SHAMROCK The Celts of Western Europe had Matronae (Mother Goddess) shrines which could multiply from 3 to 6 to 9 identities, a trust shared in pre-Christian eire, the place the consuming of the sorrel was once a kind of divine communion with the goddess within the spring. Saint Patrick cleverly co-opted the shamrock as evidence of his new biblical model of the trinity. CLOGS TO CLOGS IN three GENERATIONS one of many basic historic principles at the back of the works of that genius medieval historian Ibn Khaldoun is the average decline of dynastic power. To shorten his nice paintings to a sentence: the Questing-Conqueror unites his humans in the back of a few reason, is succeeded by means of the Builder-Administrator, after which the home of strength disintegrates among a feuding kinfolk of spoiled younger princelings.
