Editing 9 (section)

==Religion and philosophy==
[[File:Bahai star.svg|100px|right|A nine-pointed star]]

* Nine, as the largest single-digit number (in [[decimal|base ten]]), symbolizes completeness in the [[Baháʼí Faith]]. In addition, the word Baháʼ in the [[Abjad numerals|Abjad notation]] has a value of 9, and a 9-pointed star is used to [[Baháʼí symbols|symbolize the religion]].
* The number 9 is revered in Hinduism and considered a complete, perfected and divine number because it represents the end of a cycle in the [[decimal]] system, which originated from the Indian subcontinent as early as [[30th century BC|3000 BC]].
* In [[Norse mythology]], the number nine is associated with [[Odin]], as that is how many days he hung from the [[world tree]] [[Yggdrasil]] before attaining knowledge of the [[runes]].
* Nine is the number associated with Satan in [[LaVeyan Satanism]]. [[Anton LaVey]] wrote in The Satanic Rituals that this is because nine is the number of the [[Ego (Freudian)|ego]] since it "always returns to itself" even after being multiplied by any number.