السميائية العددية في الحضارات القديمة و الآداب الشعبية

الملخص EN

Folk beliefs are linked to a series of human experiences and cumulative interconnected experiences, and when crystallized in different folk literatures, they turn into symbols and signs indicative of them.

Numbers are the most important of those symbols, which man has been interested in since ancient times, and their forms and signs varied among different nations and civilizations, and this study attempts to reveal Those semiotics/relationships between these numbers and beliefs, and their impact on the behavior of societies, and the study was limited to the two numbers (three and seven), given that they are the most widespread numbers, and the most influential and powerful in Egyptian society; And even the Arab society since ancient times.

Therefore, the study used the historical and psychological approach in addition to the analytical, and was divided into: Introduction and three topics; Each topic is divided into two parts; The first topic is a conceptual topic (on the term semiotics), which includes the concept of semiotics and the concept of numerology, both linguistically and idiomatically.

The second topic, which is labeled (Numerical Semiotics in Ancient Civilizations), is divided into two parts; The first is titled (Numerical Semiotics in Ancient Civilizations), and the second is (Numerous Semiticism in the Qur’an and Sunnah).

As for the third topic, it was entitled (Numerical Semiotics in Folk Literatures); And dealt with number (three) in the folk tale, the folk song, the proverbs, and the riddles, while the number (seven) came in the second part of the topic, in which the number seven was dealt with the folk tale, the folk song, and the folk proverbs, in addition to the popular beliefs.

The study concluded with results, recommendations, and a list of sources and references that contributed to the completion of this study.