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>>1063393 (last bread)

>>1063494

Some sauce on [4].

>http:// www.ridingthebeast.com/numbers/nu4.php

-Saint Ambroise sees in 4 a luckless number.

-Represented symbolically by the square or the cross.

-Symbolizes the Earth, or what is terrestrial, the totality of created and revealed, according to the Bible.

-Symbolize the incarnation of the beings in the matter.

-Symbol of the feminine or the woman, for anatomical reasons: the four lips on the body of the woman.

-Number of the force, this symbol is often reproduced on arms.

-In Japan, the four brings misfortune. They avoid to pronounce it because the same word means "the death".

-The four days of Lazarus at the grave. (Jn 11,17)

-The four colors of horses of the Revelation and the four knights who bring the four major curses. (Rv 6,2-8)

-The four destructive angels standing at the four corners of the earth. (Rv 7,1)

https:// infogalactic.com/info/Tetraphobia

(aka "Fear of Fours")

http:// tarot-astrology.co.uk/2015/08/08/the-emperor-interpretation-and-meaning-of-the-tarot-major-arcana/

Anonymous ID: 954c01 April 16, 2018, 6:13 a.m. No.1063727 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>3836

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>>1063681

Agree, appears that They also planned to set a few nukes off to generate the (supposedly) necessary Fire Element.

>>1061426 #1324

But like its legend, the phoenix enjoys a modern rebirth as a mascot, logo, and fairytale. Swarthmore is not alone in seeking a symbol of renewed life and hope after devastating fire.

Cities including Atlanta; San Francisco; London; and institutions in Chicago and Coventry, England, have each adopted the phoenix.

Its namesake, Phoenix, Ariz., reminds modern Americans that the city stands on the same site as a vanished Native American civilization.

https:// bulletin.swarthmore.edu/bulletin-issue-archive/archive_p=117.html

Anonymous ID: 954c01 April 16, 2018, 6:31 a.m. No.1063836 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>3986

>>1063727 Interestingly enough,

This early Greek version of the phoenix has no fire.

Although he lived two centuries later, the Greek historian Herodotus is credited with introducing the legend of the phoenix into Western culture after his travels in Egypt. In his famous Histories (fifth century BCE), Herodotus tells of many new, fantastic beasts, including the crocodile, hippopotamus, and phoenix. Herodotus visits Heliopolis and talks to the temple priests: “They have another sacred bird called the phoenix, which I have never seen, except in pictures. Indeed, it is a great rarity, even in Egypt. They tell a story of what this bird does, which does not seem to me to be credible.”

The Greeks rooted the tale of the phoenix in Western imagination more than 2,500 years ago,

>https:// bulletin.swarthmore.edu/bulletin-issue-archive/archive_p=117.html

(Air China logo on right designed by same artist who designed Shenzhen sculptures)

>>1063060 (last bread)

Then there's the Phoenicians…