What I show here is 'the group of words' that couch "that word" (below hyperlinked to a listing of a few of the most-crucial ways "Eight" plays into religions' stories) into your vocabulary ... deeper meanings that 'firm the foundations' upon which our lexicon stands ...
- Some of the Religious Eights
- The Ones that Come to Mind
- Scientology's 8 Dynamics
- Buddhism's Eightfold Noble Path
- The Judeo-Christian focus on The Eight Day (in several ways, most-notably Judaism's 'circumcision-' & Christianity's 'baptism-on the eighth day after birth'
- Some More listed at the 'built' word above:
- the 8-point starburst of Babylon's Ishtar (or Greece's Aphrodite or Rome's Venus)
- Egypt's 8 Deities
- Gnostics' Ogdoad (four pairs of primordial principles)
- Hindus' 8-point Star of Lakshmi
- Astrology's Overlapping Squares (symbolizing positive- & negative aspects of The Four Elements)
- Judeo-Christian Esotericism's placing the Hebrew Letters of God's Names יהוה & לתת (ADNI & YHWH) at the points of an octagram
- the Star of Chaos Magic
- the Wiccan Wheel of the Year
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