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Keyword:   twelve
Context:   In addition, I have long been disconcerted by the incoherent pairing of the Greek designations of the twelve Houses: Good Fortune (Agathê tuchê) and Misfortune (Kakê tuchê) of Houses 5 and 6, the Good Spirit (Agathos daimôn) and the Bad Spirit (Kakos daimôn) of Houses 11 and 12, the God (Theos) and the Goddess (Thea) of Houses 9 and 3, with the first two pairs linking contiguous houses, the third linking symmetrical houses.
Full context:   In addition, I have long been disconcerted by the incoherent pairing of the Greek designations of the twelve Houses: Good Fortune (Agathê tuchê) and Misfortune (Kakê tuchê) of Houses 5 and 6, the Good Spirit (Agathos daimôn) and the Bad Spirit (Kakos daimôn) of Houses 11 and 12, the God (Theos) and the Goddess (Thea) of Houses 9 and 3, with the first two pairs linking contiguous houses, the third linking symmetrical houses. I propose the following explanation: Houses 5, 12 and 3 were likely added at a later date, and House 8 probably as well, since its Greek designation is problematic. There must have existed, then, another model of the octotopos that contained, in addition to the four angular houses, only Houses 2 (Aidou pulê = Latin porta inferna, The Portal of Hades or the Infernal Portal), 6 (Kakê tuchê = Latin mala fortuna, Misfortune), 9 (Theos = Latin deus, The God) and 11 (Agathos daimôn = Latin bonus daemon, the Good Spirit) of the final form taken by the dodekatopos. This system is coherent for the following reasons: mala fortuna (Kakê tuchê) and the porta inferna (Aidou pulê) are found below the horizon (to note their feminine and negative nature), deus and bonus daemon are above the horizon; mala fortuna is semantically opposite to bonus daemon as is porta inferna to deus; porta inferna is logically the last house of the sequence, the one which marks passage through death. The following outline gives what is probably the oldest Greek version of the octotopos, and its equivalence to my model of Dominion:      1. The Marker of Hours (Greek: hôroskopos) = AS = Communication, awakening to the world      2. The Good Spirit (= House 11 of the dodekatopos) = Friendship      3. The Midheaven (Greek: mesouranêma) = MC = Situation      4. The God (= House 9 of the dodekatopos) = Harmony, spiritual experience      5. The End of Day (Greek: dysis) = DS = The Couple      6. Misfortune (= House 6 of the dodekatopos) = Knowledge      7. The Subterranean (Greek: hupgeion) = Nadir = Mystery      8. The Portal of Hades (= House 2 of the dodekatopos) = Renown, Heritage

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Max Weber
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