Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-31763506-20200119035418

Lostone2 wrote: But Tertia also says that the number doesn't have a deep meaning.

I once philosophized on why the seven day week emerged as opposed to a 10 day week or a 4 day week, and I decided it was probably socioeconomic inertia. People need time off, even back in the Classical/Medieval period. Aristocrats want them to work as much as possible, people on the ground want as much rest as they can get. If a week is described by the regularity of a day off, and the Hebrew tradition is pretty clear that was the original definition, then a week that optimizes the amount of working time to resting time will emerge and survive. The Soviets actually tried to impose a rolling five day work week of four days working to one day off that was staggered across the population, but they eventually had to restore the classical 7 days with everyone having the same weekend.

The "reason" for seven goddesses and seven incubus kings might just be a simple matter of the dynamics of the ecosystem. If there are too many goddesses or incubus kings, then they will end up being too weak and get killed off. If there are too few, the individual incubi and goddesses are too strong, and become targeted by everyone in the world with any power, and eventually someone gets lucky.