All Things Five
Cardinal: FIVE
Hindu-Arabic: 5
Ordinate: Fifth
Roman: V
Greek: Epsilon
1 + 4, 2 + 3
Pythagorean numbers: the pentad
Words of Five
Roman Word
- quinque, quintus, quini: quintuplets
Greek Word
- penta: pentagram (5 pointed star) Pentagon
Family, Social, Religious Associations:
- Christain Symbol of the 5 wounds of Christ on the cross, thus it is the number of sacrifice.
- Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father & thy mother.
- Biblical: David chose 5 smooth stones out of the brook; 5 wise and 5 foolish virgins (Matthew 25:3)
- Christ suffered 5 wounds
- Joshua killed five kings
- Pentateuch: first 5 books of Old Testament
- Games, Sport References: 5 gaited horse, Little Phoebe (dice slang), V, Vee, Fiver, Quint, Five Spot (cards)
Time Associations:
- Friday: (Norse God Frigg - Frigedaey, goddess of marriage, wife of Woden & mother of Thor
- Latin day of Venus
- May is fifth month
- 5:00 p.m. Quitting Time
Geometrical, Scientific & Monetary references:
- Boron (B)– periodic table(B)
- prime number
- fiver – $5, nickel, 5 dollar bill
Alpha letters: e, n, w
Groups of Five:
- Five senses
- five day work week
- five fingers
- five toes
- Five star– highest quality
- five year plan
- five star brandy
- five star general
- five W’s: who, what, where, when & why
Astrological association: House of Leo
Astrological & Numerology Prophetic references:
- Because is the odd center of the nine numbers, or the fulcrum point, it becomes the number of chance, the pivotal point where past and future are both visible at the same time.
- Five is the number of temptation as it concerns the five senses and all of feeling in the sensual world. It is another number of sex and reproduction.
- The Greeks considered the pentagram a sacred symbol. The pentagram represented light, health and vitality. Five point star represents man and his destiny.
- Because it is free from the disturbances of the four lower elements, Greeks held the number symbolic of ether, the fifth element.
- Five was also symbolic of Nature.
- The Roman signifier V represents victory.
- If you divide the perfect number, ten, into equal parts your get five. The Pythagoreans called it the number of equilibrium.
- The keywords are reconciliation, alteration, cordiality, sound, providence, marriage & immortality.
- The deities associated with this number were Nemesis, Bast & Venus.
- Mercury is associated with the intellect, communication, mental and nervous processes, dexterity, ambiguity, writing and diplomacy.
Negative connotations:
Five indicates untruthfulness, unreliability, and weakness of the mental
processes. Ill-luck, imperfection, imbalance, darkness.
Tarot Divination:
the hierophant who represents traditional or orthodox
teaching. Preference for the outer forms of religion, the ritual, the creed,
the ceremony rather than the spiritual. This card displays the importance of social approval, the need to conform to society.
Symbol: Mercury, Hermes the Magician, the hand, the body, the pentagram
Sign:
Liturature, folk tale and art:
- Five Easy Pieces, 1970 movie with Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bus
- Five, 1951 movie about end of mankind with William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Andersonl
Common Usage, Slang References:
- 5 & 10 – five and dime store
- half a sawbuck
- high five
- take five
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Sources Some information is drawn from:
- The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The Numerology Workbook by Julia Line
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Dartmouth, Number Symbolism in the Middle Ages at http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit8/unit8.html
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