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QuoteReplyTopic: The 7 day week Posted: 28-Apr-2013 at 21:07
Is Porphyry attributing the 7 day week to Ostanes the Magi here?: "The gods frequently make it manifest by foreshowing their decrees, that knowing the conditions under which each individual is born they are, if one may so say, consummate diviners ami casters of nativities. Apollo also, in an oracular response, has said: 'Invoke Mercury, and the Sun in like manner on the day of the Sun, and the Moon when her day comes, and Saturn also, and Venus in succession, with unuttered prayers, which the best by far of the Magi devised, the king of the seven-toned [harp], whom all [men] know.' But when the hearers said, 'You mean Ostanes,' he added: 'And also according to each enduring god strongly to make the sound seven times.'"
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