This number may have become sacred, in the mysteries, among the Mayas, in remembrance of the number of the children of king _Can_; for besides his three sons _Cay_, _Aac_, and _Coh_, he had, by his wife _Zoo_, two daughters, _Moo_ and _Nicte_, whose names bear a striking resemblance to _T-Mau_, one of the names of Isis and _Nike_ her sister. So king _Can_ by his wife _Zoↄ_, had five children, just as _Seb_ had by his wife _Nut_ in Egypt; these being _Aroeris_, _Set_, _Osiris_, _Isis_, and _Nike_. Strange coincidence, that may, however, give us a knowledge of the origin of the mystification of number five. SEVEN seems to have been the sacred number _par excellence_ among all civilized nations of antiquity. Why? This query has never been satisfactorily answered. Each separate people has given a different explanation, according to the peculiar tenets of their religion. That it was the number of numbers for those initiated to the sacred mysteries there can be no doubt. Pythagoras, who had borrowed his ideas on numbers from the Egyptians, calls it the "Vehicle of life," containing body and soul, since it is formed of a quartenary, that is: _Wisdom and Intellect_; and a _trinity_ or _action_ and _matter_. Emperor Julian, in _Matrem_ and in _Oratio_, expresses himself thus: "Were I to touch upon the initiation into our secret mysteries, which the Chaldees bacchised, respecting the _seven-rayed_ god, lighting up the soul through him, I should say things unknown to the rabble, very unknown, but well known to the blessed Theurgists."