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The number 7 is symbolically significance for dice. Dice are used to understand the world. Nachmanides of 12th century Spain said, “Seven is the number of the natural world.
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Read More »When people are asked to think of a die, they associate it with words like “gambling”, “gaming”, “toss”, “checkers”, “dominos”, “roll”, “tumbling”, “game”, “throw”, “shoot”, “cast”, “cheat”, “cube”, and “box”. Of course people would associate dice with games and gambling, because dice are the main implements for these activities. “Cube” and “box” make sense too, because these are the shapes every one associates with dice. The “box” association reminds me of Pandora’s Box, as if the die held the power to unleash unimaginable chaos. What about “cast” and “cheat”? “Cast” is a seemingly simple word used to describe the act of throwing dice, but the word “cast” is also associated with magic, as in casting spells or divinations. A person can cheat at games, but they can also cheat in their lives. The association between dice and divination goes back to the origin of dice. The history of dice is as old as the history of mankind. The first dice were astragali, the knucklebones of sheep and other animals. The oldest ones were found in the Middle East and they date back to 5000 BCE (Carr 1). Not only were astragali used to play games like knucklebones, a precursor to jacks, they were also used to tell the future. The throwing of dice to determine the will of the gods is known as cleromancy. In ancient Greece, astragali were found at the remains of an altar of Aphrodite (Reese). People would ask the gods questions about the future and then throw astragali or dice. The answer depended on which side they lay or the number facing upwards. In the nomadic days of hunting and gathering, hunters would use a primitive form of dice to determine where to hunt and who would get the best cuts of meat. Eventually, people began to mark the sides and form the cubes that are recognized as dice today. In the 1920’s, British archaeologist Leonard Wooley discovered the Royal Game of Ur in Iraq, which contained intact game pieces, including four-sided pyramid-shaped dice. It dates back to 2600 BCE and is the oldest game board known to exist. Around this time, dice were first marked with the opposite sides adding up to 7. Since 2600 BCE and earlier, people all over the world have enjoyed playing games, gambling and telling the future using dice. Even people who had no contact with each other used dice to play games. Archaeologists found small circles they believe ancient Mesoamericans used to play dice games. This would be the oldest game found in the Americas. They used dice made of sticks with markings on each side. As time progressed, dice became more complex. Archaeologists found a 20-sided die made of stone in a pyramid in Egypt they believe is dated to around 300 BCE. In China, dice games were so popular that in 1120 AD, they flattened them out and invented dominoes. Since there are 21 possible combinations when throwing two dice, they included 21 dominoes in each set. Although the Chinese discussed probability and chance in dice games and life, the first formalized system of probability was developed by the famous Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. In 1600 AD, the Grand Duke of Tuscany asked Galileo for help with a popular dice game. In order to determine the odds of winning, he developed probability theory, which changed the way scholars and scientists viewed the world. In earlier times, people thought that chance was completely determined by the gods. Once Galileo developed probability theory, people saw chance as a mathematical concept, not a spiritual or religious one. However, people still used dice to contact the gods, and they some still do today. In Tibet, Buddhist monks practice a form of divination called Mo. They ask Manjushri, the Boddhisatva of wisdom, questions about the future, health or travel, throw dice, and interpret the answers from books written by lamas that explain the dice combinations. The Internet has even made Mo divinations available for sale on the Internet. The Internet has made all sorts of dice used to tell the future available for sale. One type of dice use astrology to tell the future. They are called astro-dice, and they are twelve-sided dice that represent the twelve houses, planets, and signs in astrology (the Sun, the Moon, and the North and South Nodes of the Moon are counted as planets). The user will focus on a question they want answered, cast the dice, and interpret the answer based on the results. People haven’t changed since they began to exist. They still entertain themselves out of boredom; more importantly, they seek to understand the truth of the world and thereby control it.
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Read More »Dice provide just one way of doing that. Add up the opposite sides of dice and the sum is 7. This is the no ordinary coincidence. The number 7 is symbolically significance for dice. Dice are used to understand the world. Nachmanides of 12th century Spain said, “Seven is the number of the natural world. There are 7 days in the week, 7 notes on the musical scale and 7 directions (left, right, up, down, forward, back and center). ‘Seven’ – represented by the 7 days of Sukkot, is the world of nature.” According to the Bible, God created the world in 7 days, which make up the week. The seven directions make up the nature of physical space. Seven colors make up the rainbow and the color spectrum. The human body is made up of seven major parts: the head, the torso, the left arm, the right arm, the left leg, the right leg, and the sex organ. In Hinduism, there seven chakras in the body. In Islam, there are seven layers of earth, seven skies, seven heavens, seven hells, and seven doors to hell, and in both Islam and Christianity there are seven sins. The Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus are the seven celestial bodies visible to the naked eye from Earth. Physics has seven units to measure seven physical properties. In the Bible, the number is the perfect number. “The number 7 is the seeker, the thinker, the searcher of Truth.” (Decoz 1) The number seven shows up in all the mythology and folklore in the world. The number seven shows up in everything. People use dice to understand the world, so the fact that the opposite sides add up to seven is symbolically significant. The number seven holds the key to understanding the world, something that people desperately seek. In order to understand the world, people feel as if they have more control over their own lives. People use dice not just to entertain themselves, but to take back control of their lives from a cruel, meaningless world. The world was a much more dangerous place during the hunter and gatherer age than it is now. Humanity was young and had much less understanding of the world than it does now. People feared for their lives because they did not have much control over whether they lived or died. That uncertainty led them to seek answers about their future. Those answers were found in the astragali and eventually dice. They became so popular and ubiquitous through all cultures and civilizations because people all over the world are uncertain about their futures, and they feel like they have no control over their lives. Dice are a reaction to the fear and uncertainty that is common through all human DNA. Dice represent a means of control, or at least the illusion of control, and that is why they are still popular today. How ironic it is that the same tool used to tell us about our lives is also used for games!
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