– When I am angry, SEVEN can be killed;
– SEVEN against one;
– SEVEN baby-sitters can’t say why their only baby lost his eye;
– One with a plough, SEVEN with a spoon;
– We, Vyatka peasants, are daring: are not afraid of one if we are SEVEN…
– The nose grew for SEVEN, but one has got;
– The need crushed the SEVEN, but the joy went to one;
– SEVEN corporals and one soldier;
– SEVEN is not one, we’ll stand up for;
– SEVEN raise one straw;
– SEVEN hunter, but there is no one rabbit fell;
– Gave birth to SEVEN and still was virgin;
– SEVEN daughters – their own party;
– One sheep has SEVEN shepherds;
– Not a big town, but has SEVEN governors;
– Better to go and see, than to send SEVEN;
– SEVEN has gone, but follow them;
– SEVEN lie in a heap, but one will take them all away;
– SEVEN stand and listen to, SEVEN eat and take food;
– Do the work as SEVEN, but listen to the one;
– One plows, and SEVEN wave with their hands;
– SEVEN owners” dog will surely die;
– One cuts, and SEVEN blow in fists;
– Seven to heap up, one to pull
– An old man is better than SEVEN young;
– The fox can deceive the SEVEN wolves;
– SEVEN invite a guest, and the guest is downstairs;
– SEVEN are to cut, and the axe is one;
– The severe king is better than SEVEN boyarhood;
– SEVEN sages are cheaper than one experienced person;
– You have SEVEN souls, but no one has a way.
Honoring of 7 great wise men is peculiar to ancient cultures, for example:
– 7 Hellenic sages in Greece (their sayings were carved on the walls of the Delphic temple);
– 7 great Rishis in India (gods have opened for them Vedic anthems);
– 7 sages from a bamboo grove in China (characters of numerous stories and of paintings).
The novel “About SEVEN sages” in various reprocessing was known in the Middle East, Persia, Byzantium, Europe, and others.
The gods also live in the teams, so the ancient religions are characterized by the peculiar faith – the pantheons were made up of 7 supreme gods. For example:
– 7 great gods of ancient Egypt (Ptah, Ra, Shu, Geb, Osiris, Set, Gore);
– 7 supreme deities of ancient Babylon (Marduk, Naboo, Shamash, Sin, Ishtar, Nergal, Ninurta), which corresponded to 7 temples, 7 towers-ziggurats;
– 7 main gods creators (“deciding destinies”) in a pantheon of Sumer and Akkad;
– 7Immortal deities in ancient Iran (Zarathustra has got a revelation from them);
– 7 gods of Duke Vladimir’s pantheon in ancient Russia (Perun, Horse, Stribog, Simarigl, Mokosh, Volos, Svarog);
– 7 supreme gods-Olympians of ancient Greece (Helios, Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Zeus, Kronos, Artemis);
– 7 supreme gods of ancient Rome (Apollo, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Diana);
– 7 gods of Scythian-Sarmatian mythology (Tabiti, Papai, Api, Goitosir, Argimpas, Targitai, Arei);
– 7 gods of ancient Ossetia-Alania (“Puryatsk Faith”, the sanctuary of Avd Zuari near Galiat in North Ossetia, the plot of the Nart epic “Gifts of the celestials to Soslan”);
– 7 gods of happiness and luck of ancient Japan (Ebisu, Daikoku-teng, Hotei, Jurojin, Fukurokuju, Bisyamon-teng, Benzai-teng).
The myth about the creation of people by the goddess Ninti from the ancient Sumerian epic “Atrahasis” is noteworthy:
Ninti pinched fourteen pieces of clay;
Seven of them she put aside on the right,
Seven put aside on the left…
The goddess has accepted twice seven childbirth,
Seven was born of a masculine gender,
Seven – a feminine gender.
It is possible to recall the Greek tragedy “Seven Against Thebes”, recall the 7 sister-pleiad daughters of Atlant, whom Zeus transformed into a constellation, 7 sons and 7 daughters of Helios, 7 Saint Old Testament martyrs (7 brothers Maccabees), 7 angels of the Apocalypse, but the word “family”, in which the number 7Is clearly contained, speaks more eloquently about the number of members of the team. The family is 7I (seven I).
The 7 roles of the team is a fact observed by mankind throughout history and therefore reflected in the culture, traditions and religions of the peoples of the world.
7I – UNIT OF SOCIETY
Family – it is not just the team connected by ties of marriage and relationship. Family – this is a compulsively established, lapped team. It is known: if characters in the family don’t get on well in any way, then there are no ties of relationship or marriage will keep the family from destruction.
Any team is not just a set of a certain number of members. The team has an internal device – a system of relations between its members. The relationship in the team is built up not at once. Each person needs to find his “place” in the team, everyone must take his “position”, should get his role. “Places”, “Position”, roles – this is all the same. The team has 7 “places” (“positions”, roles).
People, wised with life experience, know that in the team it is necessary to “establish” themselves. It means that with the certain behaviour one has to declare his claims for quite concrete “position” in the team. However, not everyone can like the claims regarding this “position”. In response, the others can “point to his place”. They can also put someone “in place”. And it will not be the place where the person would prefer to “put” himself.
In the process of lapping of people in the team, there is a fight between them for roles, for “places”, for “positions”. There are role arguments and showdown. If a person in the team is offered or imposed a role that does not fit to the certain mode of thinking, then he has a mental discomfort. He attempts to change the attitude towards himself, tries to change the position in the team. As a result, he either obtains the other role or accepts his role (“love comes with habit”). Otherwise, he has to leave this team, and then they say about him: “He didn’t get on well in the team”. In working teams say: “We haven’t worked