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The Number 5 has so many meanings, like:
There are five basic "pillars" of Islam.
Muslims pray to Allah five times a day (Muhammad was said to have bargained it down with Allah from 50).
The Torah contains five books—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—which are collectively called the Five Books of Moses, the Pentateuch (Greek for "five containers," referring to the scroll cases in which the books were kept), or Humash (Hebrew for "fifth")
King David, author of Psalms, arranged the 150 Psalms into five books, paralleling the Five Books of Moses
The Khamsa, an ancient symbol shaped like a hand with five fingers, is used as a protective amulet by Jews and Muslims
According to some traditions of Maya mythology, we are now living in the Fifth World.
In East Asian tradition, there are five elements: (water, fire, earth, wood and metal).
The Japanese names for the days of the week, Tuesday through Saturday, come from these elements via the identification of the elements with the five planets visible with the naked eye. Also, the traditional Japanese calendar has a five-day weekly cycle that can be still observed in printed mixed calendars combining Western, Chinese-Buddhist and Japanese names for each weekday.
In some cultures there are five cardinal directions, including the center.
In Cantonese, "five" sounds like the word "not"
When five appears in front of a lucky number, e.g. "58", the result is considered unlucky.
According to various mythologies, the universe is comprised of five classical elements: water, earth, air, fire and ether.
In Greek Orthodox Christian mysticism, the number 5 symbolizes the Holy Spirit as the bearer of all life. In the monastic tradition of Mount Athos there exists a "hymn" to the Holy Spirit composed entirely and solely of repetitions of the word "pente" (Greek for "five")
In Discordianism, 5 is seen as a very important number as demonstrated in the Law of Fives and The Pentabarf, which contains five rules. Each page of the Principia Discordia, the primary religious document in Discordianism, is also labeled with 5 digits. |
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