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Nine Stones Close, also known as the Grey Ladies, is a stone circle on Harthill Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands. It is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages , over a period between 3300 and 900 BCE .
The Ophites accepted the existence of these seven archons (Origen, Contra Celsum, vi. 31; a nearly identical list is given in On the Origin of the World): [8] Yaldabaoth, called also Saklas who emerged later, [9] Archon of fornication [10] and Samael. Saturn. 2nd Heaven. 6th Heaven and 7th Heaven. 8th Heaven. Cast into Tartarus [11] [10]
The Nine Consciousness is a concept in Buddhism, specifically in Nichiren Buddhism, [1] that theorizes there are nine levels that comprise a person's experience of life. [2] [3] It fundamentally draws on how people's physical bodies react to the external world, then considers the inner workings of the mind which result in a person's actions. [1]
It also appears in the Rolling Stones' song "Tumbling Dice" ("sixes and sevens and nines"). The phrase is also used in the 1978 movie The Wiz, when Miss One gives Dorothy the silver slippers and comments, "Oh, don't be all sixes and sevens, honey" to Dorothy as Dorothy is in a state of confusion after killing the Wicked Witch of the East. In ...
One for sorrow, Two for luck (varia. mirth);Three for a wedding, Four for death (varia. birth);Five for silver, Six for gold; Seven for a secret never to be told, Eight for heaven,
The lowest amount that the Nile flooded to solve the famine was seven cubits. The highest was 28 cubits (four times seven). A doomed prince found a tower seventy (ten times seven) cubits high with seventy (ten times seven) windows. Set tore the god Osiris’ body into fourteen pieces: seven each for the two regions of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Everything you need to know before you attend a Passover seder
The number seven appears frequently in Babylonian magical rituals. [13] The seven Jewish and the seven Islamic heavens may have had their origin in Babylonian astronomy. [1] In general, the heavens is not a place for humans in Mesopotamian religion. As Gilgamesh says to his friend Enkidu, in the Epic of Gilgamesh: "Who can go up to the heavens ...