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Text Cut: Cleopatra Lolita Quote:
Originally Posted by Lolita Domingo  [SIZE="4"]
She clapped her hands several times to get the attention of the class. "ˇAtención! Back up here, please." Lolita paused several seconds to allow them to finish their sentences. "I saw many good thought processes, and a few of you even figured out the answers by the end." Some of them had clearly memorized a textbook, though, which was not the type of critical thinking and deep understanding she was looking for. Anyone could look up answers, what she wanted to know was if they could riddle them out themselves.
"So five, as the union of the first male and female numbers, was thought to stand for love and marriage." She nodded in the direction of the several who she'd heard that idea from. "Now ten unites the properties of uniqueness, polarity, harmony, and all of space or matter because it is a combination of one, two, three, and four." This was the hint she had given them. "Therefore, ten is the number of everything and was the Pythagoreans' most revered number, since it represented the whole of the cosmos." More appreciative nods toward those who had come to this conclusion.
After a slight pause for scribbling notes, she continued. "So to summarize.." With a wave of her wand, the equations disappeared and the vibratory influences they had discussed appeared.
"Now for the task. Remember how I said Arithmancy could help us understand ourselves better? We can use these basic vibratory influences as building blocks to get other numbers. For instance, six is the product of 2 and 3, the first male and female numbers, and when the two genders combine after marriage, the 5, new life is formed. So six represented creation." And much more, but that was the most commonly used characteristic. "I would like to hear YOUR ideas on the numbers seven, eight, and nine. There are multiple answers possible, as the ancient literature has little consensus on how the Pythagoreans viewed these. Once more you may pair with someone or not, it is up to you." And she wanted to see creativity and a solid thought process here, not just textbook answers.
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Cutty pulled out a clean sheet of parchment to reorganize his notes.
Professor Domingo's answer left Cutty guessing. Left him eager to spot the patterns. Not so much to please her, but for his own selfish gratification. Did gender play a greater role than meaning? Why were some numbers figured by multiplication and not addition? And besides being a convenient hint, why should five have been excluded in figuring the vibrational energy behind ten? Was there a significance for numbers one through four? What would happen when they got to much larger numbers?
Maybe they were looking at any variant of numbers provided they were smaller than the one being looked at. There had to be a pattern, though. Something that the discoverers were looking at to form a conclusion. He amended his notes. Quote:
Originally Posted by Cutty's Notes 1: Not a number. No gender. Unity/Uniqueness.
2: First female number. Opinion & division. Partisan. Polarity. (1+1)
3: First male number. Harmony. (1+2)
4: Second female number. Justice & order. (1+3)
5: Second male number. Marriage & Love. (2+3)
6: Third female number. Creation. (2x3)
7: Third male number. _______ (3+4)(6+1)(5+2)(4+2+1)
8: Fourth female number. ____________ (2x4) (4+4) (6+2) (5+3) (7+1)(5+2+1)
9: Fourth male number. _____________(2+3+4) (4+5) (3x3) (3+6)(8+1)(5+3+1)(7+2)
10: Fifth female number. The cosmos (1+2+3+4) If seven was a combination of a male number representing harmony and a female number representing justice or order, perhaps it could've been thought of as balance, rather than five. In Cutty's experience, marriage was as far from balance as anything you could get, though he did not regard this as a bad thing. Merely, he thought it inaccurate. Though, maybe it was something different. Maybe the pattern was 1+1, 1+2, 1+3, 2+3, 2(3), 2+5, 5+3, 5+4, 5+5. The last three might have also been combinations involving 3. 3+4=7, 3+5=8, and 3(3)=9, but then you'd have the combo breaker with 10. Text Cut: Holden Quote:
Originally Posted by Emms He smiled when the Professor gave him an approving nod. Yes, headed in the right direction. Despite getting her assuring nod, he still felt a little wibbly-wobbly about Arithmancy, he'd have to find people to study with. He copied down the answers that the Professor wrote on the board carefully into his notebook.
He paused. Now they had to figure out seven, eight, and nine, hey? Hmm... He rested his chin on his hands. Seven could be opinion and division plus love and marriage. But what would that even mean? He had no clue. Eight could be something to do with love and marriage plus harmony. Then nine could mean justice and order plus creation? He copied down these in his notebooks but what did this mean exactly?
Now Simon was lost...... Ehh..... Okay
" Hey Holden, want to compare notes?" He said leaning nearer to the boy.
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