In the book of Revelations, there are seven each of churches, bowls, seals, trumpets, thunders, spirits, stars, and lampstands as various symbols for apocalypse, and there is also a seven-eyed, seven-horned lamb, and a seven-headed, seven-diademed dragon. However, I am foolish and unwise, so an exception will be made in this case, as all seven discs are available "on all 7 platforms" according to the 7g.click website. It's foolish and unwise to take Biblical numerology on its face as a scholarly source. To clarify, seven is one of the most sanctified numbers in Christian mythology, and the degree to which Cook plays with this motif is not unlike Bosch's inversion of the mythos in his magnum opus The Garden of Earthly Delights.
However, Bosch never clearly condemned such so-called sins, which instead lead to interpretations of him as someone who celebrates fleshy indulgences, as an anecdotal Wikipedia source describes the lust in Bosch’s work as “music of the flesh.” Cook's overt use of septenary patterning and often-blatant connections to Bosch and his religious triptychs make it impossible to ignore.
Its origination is unclear: the sexual/violent depictions of the center and right make it unlikely to have been commissioned for a church, however The Garden’s bold depictions “do not rule out a church commission”², as the liberties in the triptych’s second and third panel could have been requested by the clergy as a way to demonstrate immorality and the punishments thereof, respectively. Between 14, early Netherlandish oil painter Hieronymus Bosch started and completed his masterwork The Garden of Earthly Delights, which depicts the Garden of Eden (or Paradise), Earth, and Hell, and at 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm, the piece is truly larger than life.
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