Numbers
Numbers denote qualitative as well as quantitative principles of cosmic origin and harmony; traditions assign them magical meanings and use systems including Mesoamerican base twenty.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Persian mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Khara bears Persian mythology
why
It is described with a precision that is clearly systematic rather than observational: three legs, six eyes, nine mouths, two ears and one horn, of enormous size, and the numbers are given as figures rather than approximations.