Six’s Symbols, Lore & Legend

SIX * 6 * Sixth * VI * Digamma * Hexad

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All Things Six

Cardinal: SIX
Hindu-Arabic: 6
Ordinate: Sixth
Roman: VI
Greek: Digamma
Pythagorean number: the hexad
1+5, 2+4, 3+3, 2x3

Words of Six:
Roman words

• sex, sextus: sextant, sextuplets, sextile
• Latin seni: 6 each

Greek word

• hexa: hexagram (6 pointed star, Seal of Soloman), hexagon, hexapod (insect)

Social, Religious, Family Association:

• Christian number of creation & order, world made in 6 days. Imperfection - 1 short of completion
• Sixth Commandment: Thou shall not kill.
• Biblical: manna fell from heaven for 6 days; Jesus changed six pots of water into wine for his first miracle. Six days of creation.
• Seal of Soloman
• Six Point Star as symbol of Judiaism.
• 666 – number of devil.
• Hexateuch: first 6 books of Old Testament.
• Sext2 (Eccles.) 4^th and 7^th Canonical hours or services.
• Games, sports references: Woman's basketball team, Sixte (in fencing – 6^th defensive position) cards: Captain Hicks (dice), six spot, sixer

Time and Holiday Associations:

• June
• Saturday or Saturn's day for weeks ending with Sunday.
• Friday for weeks ending with Saturday

Alpha letters: f, o, x

Scientific, Geometrical, Monetary:

• Carbon (C) periodic number
• Six as unit of measure, 60 minutes, half-dozen

Astrological association: House of Virgo

Astrological & Numerology Prophetic references:

• Six represents the human soul because six is symbolic of the union between fire and water. The number of ambivalence and effort.
• A 'perfect number' because it equals the sum of its divisors and is divisible by both a 3 (odd) and a 2 (even) thus harmoniously combining the elements of each. Also a hermaphroditic number.
• The number of the days of Creation and therefore symbolic of the cessation of effort.
• The number of love, marriage and domestic happiness.
• The Pythagoreans referred to this number as 'the perfection of all points.' It was called the form of forms, the maker of the soul and the articulation of the universe.
• Its keywords are time, panacea, the world, omnisufficient & unwearied. It is associated deities are Orpheus, the Muse Thalia & the Fate Lachesis.
• Negative connotations:
• unfinished or imperfect business, projects; conversely, becoming a work aholic. Losing sense of time and place, being in want or exhausted. Working for evil.

Tarot Divination: the lovers represents conscious knows the super-conscious by seeing through the subconscious. Choice, temptation, attraction. the struggle between sacred & profane love. Harmony of the inner and outer aspects of life.

Symbols: Venus, Diana, Janus, the heart Venus governs love, harmony, artistry, feminine sexuality, attractions, affection, physical beauty and art.

Sign: A double triangle or circle divided into 6 representing unity of spirit and body and harmony between man and God.

Liturature, folktale & art:

• Six Feet Under, 2001-2005 TV show

Common usage, slang:

• Half dozen
• six shooter
• six gun
• six pack
• six penny
• six fold
• six footer

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Sources Some information drawn from:

• The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
• The Numerology Workbook by Julia Line
• Dartmouth, Number Symbolism in the Middle Ages at http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit8/unit8.html
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