All Things Ten!
Cardinal: TEN
Hindu-Arabic: 10
Ordinate: Tenth
Roman: X
Greek: Iota
Pythagorean number: the decade
1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5; 2x5
Words of Ten
Roman Words:
- decem, decimus decimeter: December (Roman 10th month) decimal.
- deni: ten each
Greek word
- deca: decameter, decathalon, decade, decapod )lobster)
Ten Associations: ten fingers, ten toes
Time Associations:
- Tenth month: October
- 10:00
- December is tenth month in the Roman calender
- decade
Science, Technology References:
- Neon Ne periodic table
- Metric system
- Monetary: Sawbuck
- powers of ten
Social, Family, Religious
- Christain: Ten commandments. Ten plagues.
- Tenth Commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, nor thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbours'.
- the Ten Sephiroth of the Qabalah
- Ten names of God: Ehyeh, Yh, Jehovah, El the Mighty One, Eloah, Elohim, Sabaoth, Elohim Sabaoth, El Hayy, The Mighty Living One, Adonay the Lord
- Ten classes of Angels
- FBI Ten Most Wanted
- Top Ten lists
- Games, Sports: Ten pin bowling; Big Dick (dice) Big Ten
Astrological Associations: House of Capricorn
Literary, folk lore, art:
Common usage and slang:
- Ten gallon hat
- ten bucks
- Hang ten
- take ten
- ten percenter
- perfect 10
Prophetic references:
- Ten represents the end of one cycle and the beginning of another. Ten completes a cycle; When one, the first number which represents God, has a zero, representing infinity, added, we get a statement that 'there is only one God without end who knows no bounds'
- It is considered a particularly fortunate number and holds the promise of victory in difficult situations.
- Ten has been regarded as a 'holy' numbers and surrounded in mystic beliefs stemming from antiquity. When the Godhead 'Io' was believed to be both masculine and feminine. The 'I' represented the male phallus and the 'O' the female womb through which all creation was projected
- Ten is the greatest of all numbers because it is the Tetraktys (a triangular figure composed of ten dots arranged in the shape of a pyramid) and comprehends all harmonic and arithmetic proportions. Pythagoras viewed ten as the nature of number.
- Keywords are age, power, faith, necessity, memory & tirelessness. Associated with Urania, Phanes, the One God and Atlas.
Negative connotations:
Tarot divinations: the wheel of fortune: Perpetual motion, meaning success, unexpected turn of luck, change of fortune for the better, new conditions; creative evolution within the laws of chance.; the ups and downs of life.
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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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