Christianity[edit]

 The spiritual Eighth Day, because the number 7 refers to the days

of the week (which repeat themselves).
 The number of Beatitudes.[55]
 1 Peter 3:20 states that there were eight people on Noah's Ark.[56]
 The Antichrist is the eighth king in the Book of Revelation.[57]

Islam[edit]

 In Islam, eight is the number of angels carrying

the throne of Allah in heaven.[58]
 The number of gates of heaven

Taoism[edit]

 Ba Gua[59]
 Ba Xian[60]
 Ba Duan Jin

Other[edit]

 In Wicca, there are eight Sabbats, festivals, seasons, or spokes in

the Wheel of the Year.[61]
 In Ancient Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad represents the eight
primordial deities of creation.[62]
 In Scientology there are eight dynamics of existence. [63]
 There is also the Ogdoad in Gnosticism.[64]

In music and dance[edit]

 A note played for one-eighth the duration of a whole note is called

an eighth note, or quaver.
[70]

 An octave, the interval between two musical notes with the same

letter name (where one has double the frequency of the other), is
so called because there are eight notes between the two on a
standard major or minor diatonic scale, including the notes
themselves and without chromatic deviation.  The
[71]

ecclesiastical modes are ascending diatonic musical scales of eight

notes or tones comprising an octave.
 There are eight notes in the octatonic scale.
 There are eight musicians in a double quartet or an octet.  Both [72]

terms may also refer to a musical composition for eight voices or

instruments. [73]

 Caledonians is a square dance for eight, resembling the quadrille.

 Albums with the number eight in their title include 8 by the Swedish
band Arvingarna, 8 by the American rock band Incubus,  The [74]

Meaning of 8 by Minnesota indie rock band Cloud Cult and 8ight by

Anglo-American singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe. [75]

 Dream Theater's eighth album Octavarium contains many different

references to the number 8, including the number of songs and
various aspects of the music and cover artwork.
 "Eight maids a-milking" is the gift on the eighth day of Christmas in
the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas". [76]

 The 8-track cartridge is a musical recording format.

 "#8" is the stage name of Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor.
 "Too Many Eights" is a song by Athens, Georgia's Supercluster. [77]

 Eight Seconds, a Canadian musical group popular in the 1980s

with their most notable song "Kiss You (When It's Dangerous)". [78]

 "Eight Days a Week" is a #1 single for the music group The

Beatles. [79]

 Figure 8 is the fifth studio album by singer-songwriter Elliott Smith,

released in the year 2000,  an album released by Julia Darling in
[80]

1999,  and an album released by Outasight in 2011.

[81] [82]

 Ming Hao from the k-pop group Seventeen goes by the name

"The8". [83]

 "8 (circle)" is the eighth song on the album 22, A Million by the

American band Bon Iver. [84]

 "8" is the eighth song on the album When We All Fall Asleep,

Where Do We Go? by Billie Eilish. [85]

In film and television[edit]

 8 Guys is a 2003 short film written and directed by Dane Cook.

 8 Man (or Eightman): 1963 Japanese manga and anime superhero.
 8 Mile is a 2002 film directed by Curtis Hanson. [86]

 8 mm is a 1999 film directed by Joel Schumacher. [87]

 8 Women (Original French title: 8 femmes) is a 2001 film directed
by François Ozon. [88]

 Eight Below is a 2006 film directed by Frank Marshall. [89]

 Eight Legged Freaks is a 2002 film directed by Ellory Elkayem. [90]

 Eight Men Out is a 1988 film directed by John Sayles. [91]

 Jennifer Eight, also known as Jennifer 8, is a 1992 film written and

directed by Bruce Robinson. [92]

 Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series.

 In Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, dialing an 8-chevron
address will open a wormhole to another galaxy.
 The Hateful Eight is a 2015 American western mystery film written
and directed by Quentin Tarantino. [93]

 Kate Plus 8 is an American reality television show. [94]

In sports and other games[edit]

An 8-ball in pool

 Eight-ball pool is played with a cue ball and 15 numbered balls, the

black ball numbered 8 being the middle and most important one, as
the winner is the player or side that legally pockets it after first
pocketing its numerical group of 7 object balls (for other meanings
see Eight ball (disambiguation)).
 In chess, each side has eight pawns and the board is made of 64
squares arranged in an eight by eight lattice. The eight queens
puzzle is a challenge to arrange eight queens on the board so that
none can capture any of the others.
 In the game of eights or Crazy Eights, each successive player must
play a card either of the same suit or of the same rank as that
played by the preceding player, or may play an eight and call for
any suit. The object is to get rid of all one's cards first.
 In association football, the number 8 has historically been the
number of the Central Midfielder.
 In Australian rules football, the top eight teams at the end of
the Australian Football League regular season qualify for the finals
series (i.e. playoffs).
 In baseball:
o The center fielder is designated as number 8 for scorekeeping
purposes.
o The College World Series, the final phase of the NCAA Division I
tournament, features eight teams.
 In rugby union, the only position without a proper name is
the Number 8, a forward position.
 In rugby league:
o Most competitions (though not the Super League, which uses
static squad numbering) use a position-based player numbering
system in which one of the two starting props wears the number
8.
o The Australia-based National Rugby League has its own 8-team
finals series, similar but not identical in structure to that of the
Australian Football League.
 In rowing, an "eight" refers to a sweep-oar racing boat with a crew
of eight rowers plus a coxswain. [95]

 In the 2008 Games of the XXIX Olympiad held in Beijing, the official

opening was on 08/08/08 at 8:08:08 p.m. CST.
 In Rock Climbing, climbers frequently use the Figure Eight knot to
tie into their harnesses.
In foods[edit]

 Nestlé sells a brand of chocolates filled with peppermint-flavoured

cream called After Eight, referring to the time 8 p.m.[96]

 There are eight vegetables in V8 juice.

In literature[edit]

 Eights may refer to octosyllabic, usually iambic, lines of verse.

 The drott-kvaett, an Old Icelandic verse, consisted of a stanza of
eight regular lines.
[97]
 In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, eight is a magical
number  and is considered taboo. Eight is not safe to be said by
[98]

wizards on the Discworld and is the number of Bel-Shamharoth.

Also, there are eight days in a Disc week and eight colours in a
Disc spectrum, the eighth one being octarine.
 Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark has 8 "fits" (cantos),
which is noted in the full name "The Hunting of the Snark – An
Agony, in Eight Fits."[99]

 Eight apparitions appear to Macbeth in Act 4 scene 1 of

Shakespeare's Macbeth as representations of the eight
descendants of Banquo.
In slang[edit]

 An "eighth" is a common measurement of marijuana, meaning an

eighth of an ounce. It is also a common unit of sale for psilocybin
mushrooms.
 Avril Lavigne's song "Sk8er Boi" uses this convention in the title.
 "Section 8" is common U.S. slang for "crazy", based on the U.S.
military's Section 8 discharge for mentally unfit personnel.
 The Housing Choice Voucher Program, operated by the United
States Department of Housing and Urban Development, is
commonly referred to as the Section 8 program, as this was the
original section of the Act which instituted the program.[100]

 In Colombia and Venezuela, "volverse un ocho" (meaning to tie

oneself in a figure 8) refers to getting in trouble or contradicting
oneself.
 In China, "8" is used in chat speak as a term for parting. This is due
to the closeness in pronunciation of "8" (bā) and the English word
"bye".
See also