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Where does Marsilio Ficino write that all nations refer to God with a four-letter name?
This alludes on a passage in Marsilio Ficino’s commentary on Plato’s Philebus, which you can find here on Google Books (in Latin). On pages 181-182, he writes about the four letter names of God:
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Which Mesopotamian gods had sacred numbers?
To start things off, here are the ones I know of, taken from here:
10 for Adad, god of storms and power
15 for Ishtar, goddess of love and war
20 for Shamash, god of the sun and justice
30 for Sîn, ...
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Is there any superstitious associations between the number eleven and evil?
The only one I can think of is in the Babylonian Enuma Elish. The goddess Tiamat creates eleven monsters to battle the other gods.
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Why 1000 years and not 900 or 800 years for kitsune to ascend to heaven?
The Japanese tales are an adoption of Chinese mythology's húli jīng (狐狸精), appearing in a collection of tales from the Warring States, the Shan Hai Jing (山海經). The life span of the creature is only ...
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Why is 12 such a holy number?
One thing that I think is missing here is that there are twelve months in the year. The year is a solar measure, how long it takes the Earth to go around the Sun, while the month is a lunar measure, ...
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