Why 7 is considered lucky?

Question

Every time u hear a lucky 7. Why. Why only seven and not 5 or 3.

Answer 1

The answer is quite simple:



Since the earliest civilisations, man has realised there is more to life than his own little world. So he looked at the biggest and brightest physical entities as the most important and highest powers. The Sun is one obvious power and has often been worshipped as a god. The moon is also pretty big, mysterious and powerful, and that too was considered to be a god. In fact all the celestial bodies were considered deities, and as far as the ancients were concerned, there were seven such astrological celestial bodies that influenced human affairs and personalities.

Later, more heavenly bodies could be seen by telescope but by that time, civilisations were already committed to the seven gods. Nearly all ancient religions adopted this number: the Egyptians had seven gods, Muslims seven heavens, Parsees seven angels, Persians seven sacred horses, and Phoenicians seven mysterious kabiris gods. (Actually, the kabiris were so mysterious that the Phoenicians didn't know for certain how many there were, but they believed seven anyway.)


Not only Japan of course, but around the world seven was the number of heavenly powers that man depended upon, and seven itself became a special number. Had there been eight planets visible to the naked eye, no doubt man would have designated an extra Wonder to add to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and another major Sea to add to the Seven Seas

Some natural phenomena support the notion that seven is important. For example, the moon changes phase every seven days and seven phases of the moon are visible. We see seven colours in the rainbow and the seven musical notes of the diatonic scale (do, rei, me, fa, so, la, te) are considered the most pleasing to the human ear.

In addition to the supposed connection between eleven and the World Trade Center attack, seven appears in another famous U.S. story: The coincidences between Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy.

There are a few other 'natural' interesting things about seven; for example, depending on whether it's a weekday or week-end, the average person falls asleep in seven minutes and sleeps for around seven hours. It is the smallest positive integer requiring two syllables in English, and the opposite sides of a six-sided die always total seven. Yet English, as we all know, is full of quirks. And the six-sided die, whilst mildly interesting, is not very useful information unless you are a gambler (seven is statistically the most common combined numbers of two rolled dice.)

Nevertheless, because of the astrological connection described above, seven has become an important number in all civilisations. To name a few, we have:

The Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Contrary Virtues, Seven Heavenly Virtues, and the Seven Corporal Works of Mercy, as described above
When 'time' was being measured by astronomers, seven became the basis of counting hours and days (see days-months-seasons).
Man decided that there were Seven Natural Wonders of the World. No doubt if they could see eight celestial bodies they would have found an extra Wonder somewhere.
The number seven is popular in literature: 'Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils', Akira Kurosawa's Shichi-nin no Samurai ('Seven Samurai') and the American copy 'The Magnificent Seven', 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers', 'The Seven Year Itch', 'The Seven Deadly Sins', Enid Blyton's 'The Secret Seven', 'Seven Ravens' and the Grimms Fairy Tale 'The Seven Swabians'.

The understanding that seven is 'lucky', has not escaped the attention of marketing people. Take for example the popular Seven-Eleven convenience store. Born in 1927, it is over 70 years old, has over 27,000 stores in the U.S. and 17 other countries, had it's first billion sales year at the start of the 70's (1971) and it's first billion sales quarter at the end of the 70's (1979). The store was originally open from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m. but now usually open round the clock. Yet despite the confusion of the opening hours, seven has not only been retained but is prominent in the company's logo.


Then there's that delicious dark chocolate bar with a white fondant centre. The makers, JS Fry and Sons (now owned by Cadbury), moulded the chocolate bar into seven pieces. Their unforgettable jingle for the TV adverts from the 1960's was: "Seven pieces of Heaven, Fry's Chocolate Cream".

The original seven-section mould designed by Francis Fry in 1875 is the same today and the chocolate bar is the oldest of Cadbury's brands.

Of course, seven is not always lucky:

Lt. Colonel Custer's last stand against the Cheyenne in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn was not very lucky for him. His regiment was the 7th Cavalry. ('Seventh' 7 letters, 'Cavalry' 7 letters)
In Tenerife at 17.06 on March 27, 1977, a KLM 747 crashed into a PanAm 747 flight number 1736 killing 583 people making this the worst ever plane disaster.
And whilst talking about flight, here's an old English rhyme about crows and magpies, that links seven with Satan: One means anger
Two means mirth
Three, a wedding
Four, a birth
Five is heaven
Six is hell
But seven's the very devil himself.


The beast has seven horns (see Revelation 17) interpreted as the seven hills on which Rome stands
One superstition says that if you break a mirror, you'll have seven years of bad luck. Unless you bury the broken pieces of course, then you transfer the bad luck to whoever accidentally digs them up and contracts tetanus.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

i don't believe that seven is a lucky number:) well each person has its own lucky thing,name or number..but it seems that many peoples lucky number is 7...well i don't have a lucky number :(

Answer 4

Many people think No.7 is lucky. There is no supporting evidence for that. It may be the Galaxy.

Answer 5

That is just an old saying. I really don't believe in lucky numbers.

Answer 6

there are also the seven liberal arts and sciences which are important to mankind. these are Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geomety, Music and Astronomy. studying these seven liberal arts and sciences have benefitted mankind's development of society.