Cultural Reference of #2 List

Alchemy

• Two are the opposites, sun and moon.
• King and Queen.
• Sulpher and quicksilver, at first antagonistic but finally resolved and united in the androgyne.

Buddhist

• See two as the duality of samsara; male and female.
• Two is theory and practice; wisdom and method.
• It is blind and the lame united to see the way and to walk it.

Chinese

• Two is Yin, feminine; terrestrial; inauspicious.

Christian

• Christ with two natures as God and human.

Hebrew

• Two is The life-force.
• In Qabalism wisdom and self-consciousness.

Hindu

• Two is duality, the shakta-shakti.

Islamic

• Two Spirit.

Platonic

• Plato says two is a digit without meaning as it implies relationship, which introduces the third factor.

Pythagorean

• Two is The Duad, the divided terrestrial being.

Taoist

• Says two is representative of The K'ua, the Two.
• Determinants, the yin-yang.
• Two is a weak yin number as it as no center.