Within a period of seven years a human beeing changes, so is it said. The first perfect number in Islam: seven heavens, climates, soils and seas, colors, prophets, active forces, conditions and situations of the heart. The number of the universe, the macrocosm. Since within the seven, the three of the heaven and the four of the earth are included, it is the first number, that embraces spiritual and secular aspects of the world. It means healing, security, safety, peace, abundance, completeness, synthesis.

Ancient greece

Birth, death, magic, god Poseidon. Sacred to Apollon, whose Lyra has seven strings. The god Pan has seven flutes, and there are the seven wise men of Greece.

Bible

Creation in seven days, Seven cardinal virtues. Seven deadly sins. Seven sacraments. In the Old Testament, there are the seven altars of Baalam, seven oxes and rams for the sacrifice. The book with seven seals.

Babylon

Number of stars, seven cosmic towers, with seven stages, seven curls of Gilgamesh, seven branches of life, seven Pleiades.

Buddhist

The number of ascent and ascending to the supreme and the arrival in the center. The seven steps of Buddha symbolize the rise of the seven cosmic levels, which transcend time and space.

Yoruba religion

Yewa is a very strict and hermetic Orisha, which is closely linked to death. He is the Orisha who watches over the body when it is brought to the deathbed.