(06-18-2015, 11:35 AM)Nero Wrote: I felt that Square Enix's justification for player-made clans was weak and that documenting a specific number of "51" was supefluous.
This got me wondering if there was some symbolic reasoning for having "51" tribes, since that's an oddly specific number. This was what I was able to pull up based on a quick Google search:
http://www.magic-point.org/number-symbolism/ Wrote:51 degrees is the most common angle in the Sri Yantra and certain structures that are based on it: the pyramids. 51 degrees is therefore associated with sound and infrasound. This angle can also be derived in a triangle by geometrically using the circle and square to reveal the dimensions of the Earth and Moon. Stonehenge is located at 51 degrees. Not a prime, 51 is made up of 3 multiples of 17.
http://www.ridingthebeast.com/numbers/nu51.php Wrote:SymbolismGematria
- Represent the Universal Time, according to Abellio.
Occurrence
- The word ladder in Hebrew, samekh, lamed, mem final, gives as numerical value 51 = 15+12+24, by using the gematria in "n".
- The numerical value of the Hebrew word ETBLE, baptism, gives 51.
- The two books of Samuel of the Old Testament have on the whole 51 different numbers, of which the higher is 800000 (2 S 24,9).
Not much to work with, though the stuff about sound and infrasound is pretty interesting.