There are many things that come in sevens across different domains such as culture, religion, nature, and history. Here are some notable examples:
- The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Pyramids of Giza, Colossus of Rhodes, Lighthouse of Alexandria, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Statue of Zeus at Olympia.
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, Lust.
- The Seven Virtues: Faith, Hope, Charity (Theological virtues), Temperance, Prudence, Fortitude, Justice (Cardinal virtues).
- The Seven Liberal Arts: Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric (Trivium), Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, Astronomy (Quadrivium).
- The seven days of the week.
- The seven colors of the rainbow.
- The seven continents of the world.
- The seven notes in a diatonic musical scale.
- The seven sacraments in Christianity.
- The seven seas in classical culture.
- The seven chakras in Hinduism.
- Teams of seven players in sports like netball and water polo.
- Other culturally significant groups such as the Seven Sisters (a star cluster and various groups named in culture), Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man, and the Seven Levels of Hell.
These examples show the prominence of the number seven in various human traditions and the natural world.
