[[numbers]] --- [[third-function]] [[three-mothers-germanic]] > Indo-European societies had, and still have, a strong proclivity for the magic number three. [...] Over against the magic number three, seen trivially in our frequent enu- meration of three items (every Tom, Dick, and Harry; bell, book, and candle; man, woman, and child; noun, verb, object; and so on) is the Indo-European belief in conflict and competition, which posits a duality of combatants—man against nature, men and women, master and slave, two by two. Christian theology incorporates both structures...==[[kehoe2012]]p12== ### Celtic - Many of the Welsh and Irish myths contain references 'three' as a magical or sacred number. [[social-structure-class-caste]] [[saeedipour2012a]] Indo-Iranian ## Christian Trinity [[porter1999]] ## Biblio [[kehoe2012p12]]