Neurocognitive and Astronomical Foundations of Archetypal Recurrence - A Scientific Framework for the Seven and Twelve Patterns in World Religions

This study presents a unified scientific framework for understanding the recurrence of sevenfold and twelvefold archetype structures across world religions and mythologies. Drawing on cognitive psychology, neuroscience, archaeoastronomy, and anthropology, it demonstrates that these numerical patterns emerge from measurable constraints in human working memory, predictable neural mechanisms for role recognition, and universally observable celestial cycles. Through comparative case studies—including the Greek Olympians and Christian apostles, Taoist celestial bureaucracy and Catholic saints, and Norse Æsir and Hindu Devas—the paper argues that archetype systems behave like “symbolic solar systems”: stable, predictable constellations of roles anchored in both the structure of the brain and the structure of the sky. The proposed model has implications for comparative religion, cultural evolution research, and AI-based cultural modeling, offering predictive tools for reconstructing incomplete or evolving mythic systems.