In European culture, the Number 13, as in most countries, is considered unlucky. Russia and other countries are considered Orthodox and the number 13 is a common number, so religion has nothing to do with this, it's just a common superstition. In Judaism, the Number 13 is lucky, like Maya. Europe, most of its countries, and also America are to blame for all the hype with this number.
After the 12th level of development at the 13th level, the transition to the next stage of development is carried out. That is, 13 is a transitional number, which means it is unstable.
That is why it is associated with disharmony, explosion, instant transition to a new quality. Thus, the number 13 in itself is neither good nor bad. It simply symbolizes transformation and rebirth: the connection between what is and what will be.
Mystic number 13
The reason for the mystical fear of the number 13 is easy to understand, given that the ancient Jews designated thirteen and the word "death" by the same sign. That is why in occultism thirteen is the favorite number of necromancers and sorcerers, and the Tarot card at number 13 is called "Death".
Hence the connection of this number with the concept of death, because the latter means a transition to a new phase of life, which is a different being in relation to physical existence.
The number 13 plays an important role in necromancy and dark cults, where it was used as a force to summon spirits. By the way, witches had and still have a “coven of 13” working gathering, because in their year there are thirteen months (13 x 28 = 364). Satan in the rituals of witches was designated by the number 13. The belief that sowing on the thirteenth of any month goes back at least to Hesiod (VIII century BC).
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It is not surprising that the number 13 has been associated with the devil since ancient times. If we compare the elements of its symbolic interpretation: renewal, destruction of the static "divine" order (symbolized by the previous number 12), rebirth and the beginning of a new life, destruction of illusions, accentuation of the material aspects of life - we can see that all these are characteristic features of the beast of darkness.
The meaning of the number 13 in human life
There is a concept that the number thirteen is difficult. The numbers 1 and 3 themselves are strong, they predict career success. Such numbers are characterized in terms of practicality, energy, systematicity and implementation of the plan.
Therefore, people, whose birth number is 13, are creative and intelligent personalities. They have their own very definite view of things. Such people are proud, independent, ambitious. They are characterized by the fact that their undertakings are always completed on time, without delaying the implementation of the plan until later. Thirteen people have the ability to grasp everything on the fly and a tenacious memory. They learn with ease and do their job with a minimum of effort.
The number 13 can be considered unlucky for another reason. So, the very combination of numbers 1 and 3 is amazing, but their sum - 4 can characterize constant depression and pessimism. Therefore, two such contradictory meanings can be given by an unhappy state of mind. In this case, the desire for rapid and successful career advancement, high ambition and pessimism, uncertainty, and the loss of an opportunity are competing. This does not allow achieving success, as a result, disappointment comes.
Thirteen people need to work to be successful. Only if you control the situation, do not give in to difficulties, show the ambitions characteristic of the combination of numbers 1 and 3, only in this case you can become successful. And they say about such people - they are lucky.
Number 13 in numerology
With the number 13, a fatal, irreversible distortion of meaning happened. 13 has become almost the curse of all numerology as a symbol of the most hopeless bad luck. Together with the number 6, thirteen formed a devilish combination of all the worst that can happen in a person's sick imagination.
The result was the number 613, which took a special place in the magic of numbers. The number 613 is considered to be, no more, no less, the natural embodiment of hell in the world of numbers. In reality, 613 means active (at the limit of boundaries and possibilities) participation of the material principle of Man in the holiday of Divine Love.
Numbers have consciousness - this is one of the most important postulates of spiritual numerology. The consciousness of numbers is very different from the consciousness of a person, but it is also consciousness. What is the difference between human consciousness and the consciousness of numbers? The difference is that people's consciousness is constantly changing, is in a continuous movement of self-knowledge. But the consciousness of numbers is invariable! This is a unique, the only kind of consciousness in the Universe that does not change.
Number 13 in Christianity
In Christianity, examples of the use of the astral number 13 are: at the Last Supper there were 13 meals; in paradise, God sits between the 13 righteous; Joseph sees in a dream 13 celestial objects: the Sun, the Moon and 11 stars (Gen. 37.9); the total number of tribes of Israel is 13 (12 clans that received land plots, plus the landless tribe of Levi), the feast of St. Anthony of Padua falls on July 13th and is celebrated for thirteen weeks.
Thirteen in paganism
Some people are wary of the number thirteen due to their unwillingness to change their usual order of things and believe in illusion instead of an adequate life in the real world. But still, in the days of paganism, people's attitude to death was somewhat different than now. They believed in reincarnation, and therefore death also meant the beginning of a new life, which is expressed in the symbolism of the number 13: the end of the previous cycle and the beginning of the next.
Fear of the number 13
Even in our civilized age, the black magic of the "dead" number continues to influence superstitious people and entire nations. In America, England and France, it is impossible to find such a number on houses, and in cinemas and aircraft cabins, the 12th seat is immediately followed by 14.
Triskaidekaphobia (fear of thirteen) is common throughout the world. There are no thirteen floors in houses in America. Although people actually live on the 13th floor, they are not worried about this, because it is considered the 14th. There are no houses under No. 13 in France either.
In the calendar, Black Friday (Friday the 13th) is of particular concern - it is believed that this unlucky day of the week doubles the mysterious devilish power of the fatal number. Fear of him is so widespread that psychologists have designated it with a special term - "triskai decaphobia."
It is considered a bad omen if thirteen people are gathered at the table: people believe that the one of them who first gets up from the table will soon die. Especially superstitious people generally try not to leave the house on the thirteenth of every month, especially if it falls on Friday.
The mysticism of the number 13 is still valid: 12 people visited the moon and returned. The 13th must be dead from the start, as the antithesis of the eternally living Christ. The law is the law: on the last day of July 1999, the American automatic station completed the program and fell on the moon. On board was an urn with the ashes of the famous astronomer Eugen Shoemaker.
How was this dislike for the number 13 explained?
American author James Waugh argues that during the era of matriarchy there were 13 signs of the lunar zodiac. The missing sign is Arachne (Spider), who was between Taurus and Gemini and was characterized by the fact that he endowed people with parapsychic abilities. James Waugh suggested that this thirteenth lunar sign was excluded from the zodiacal cycle during the conflict between the solar and lunar priesthood. The victory of the sunlings was so complete that not only was the evidence lost, but even the memory of these disputes was not preserved and turned into a persistent prejudice.
In esotericism, the number 13 symbolizes death, after which the transformation and resurrection begins. In numerology, the number 13 symbolizes not only the beginning of a new cycle and a break with the past, but also the destruction of illusions, a look at the truth.
And based on the described understanding of the meaning of the number 13 as a transitional one between the levels of development of the process, the fear of the number thirteen should now disappear altogether.
Number 13 and Great Seal of the United States
Thirteen is prominent in Masonic symbolism. It was introduced into the Seal of America during the adoption of the Constitution in 1789. Some minor elements of the coat of arms changed, today its version is used, which was approved in 1885. At present, the American coat of arms looks like this: the obverse depicts a bald eagle holding an olive a branch with 13 olives and 13 leaves and 13 arrows.
The scroll in the eagle's beak contains the motto “E pluribus unum” (“One of many”) contains 13 letters. Above the eagle's head - 13 stars, making up a six-pointed star, on the bird's chest a shield with the American flag - there are also 13 red and white stripes on the flag in total.
The reverse is an unfinished 13-level pyramid. At its top, there are eyes in a triangle in the form in which it was depicted by the ancient Egyptians.
There is another motto above the pyramid: "It is favorable to our undertakings" - "Annuit Coeptis", this expression makes a total of 13 letters. Under the pyramid, the date of the formation of America is 1776, written in Roman numerals - MDCCLXXVI, as well as the inscription on the scroll: "New order forever" ("Novus Ordo Seclorum").
That is, the number 13 is repeated many times in all elements of the Great Seal of the United States. The same applies to the one dollar bill. On the one-dollar bill, the annoying repetition of the number 13 is striking:
- Thirteen leaves in a palm branch by an eagle;
- Thirteen arrows in his other paw, - Thirteen olives in a palm branch, - Thirteen stripes on the flag, - Thirteen five-pointed stars above the eagle's head,
- Thirteen steps at the pyramid, - Thirteen letters in words above the pyramid, - Thirteen letters in words above the eagle, - Thirteen beads to the right and left of the "seal" circles (2 times 13).
It is believed that the appearance of this number on dollars is due to the fact that it was 13 colonies who declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776, forming the United States.
Club "Thirteen"
In the 19th century in New York City, the Thirteen Club was founded by 13 men to ridicule the notion that this number brings bad luck. A gala dinner to mark the opening of the club was held on Friday, January 13th, 1882, in room 13 at Knickkerbocker Cottage, from 7.13 to 13.00. The club members decided to meet every month on the 13th. Lifetime membership was $ 13, the first installment was one dollar 13 cents, and the monthly installments were 13 cents. At the meetings, club members shocked other prejudices: for example, they deliberately sprinkled salt and smashed mirrors. The club's activities were so successful that a subsidiary club in London was soon established.
The number 13 in history
Based on these properties, its use in pictorial symbolism follows. So, for example, the altar of the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I was decorated with two 13-petal rosettes (the emblem of the lunar zodiac), in the center of which were a circle and a ring (symbolism of the goddess of Heaven). Rosettes were placed along the edges of the altar in half rings (signs of the sky), which symbolized the connection of this altar with the sky, with all the gods of the Zodiac. This meant that the altar is a place of transition from our world to the other world.
The origins of the frightening symbolism of the number 13 are hidden in the darkness of centuries, when the constellations in the sky were numbered not 12, but 13, and one of them, which is associated either with the spider-weaver Arachne, or with Ophiuchus, was the most unlucky. And although the year, as in our time, was divided into 12 months, but due to imperfect observations, every few years a 13th month was added to it, which, of course, was considered unfortunate.
It is known that while moving along the ecliptic, the Sun crosses 13 constellations. But astronomers found it necessary to divide the path of the Sun not into 13, but into 12 parts, uniting the constellations Scorpio and Ophiuchus into a single one - under the general name Scorpio.
According to ancient knowledge, there are 13 star gates in our galaxy that lead to other dimensions, but the middle star of Orion's Belt is of particular importance among them. In this stargate, great light and great darkness come together.
In Ancient Egypt, after 12 initiations giving knowledge of all the feminine aspects of consciousness, one had to go through one more, the last - the thirteenth. It was intended to study the male component of the "Right Eye of Horus", and this knowledge was not recorded anywhere. It was passed down exclusively in oral tradition, although the main landmarks were engraved on a single wall under the Great Pyramid, which is the 13th temple in Egypt. Among the Rosicrucians, the path from man to God also goes through 13 Initiations.
Thirteen is an important number in the Aztec calendar, which consisted of 13-day periods. The Maya Indians used two calendars at the same time to calculate time: a 13-month one, in which the month was 20 days, and a 20-month one, consisting of 13-day months. The Maya numbered 13 Heavens, and each was ruled by a separate god. The zodiac of the ancient Maya consisted of 13 "houses", and the week contained 13 days.
In the mythology of the ancient Egyptians, the mystical staircase leading to the Higher Knowledge consisted of thirteen steps, the last of which symbolized the afterlife. In Scandinavian myths there is a story about a fatal feast in Valhalla - Odin's heavenly palace. 12 gods were invited to the feast, but there were thirteen guests - the cruel god of chaos and discord Loki, whose intrigues led to the death of the light and beautiful Balder, appeared uninvited. This story is almost analogous to the Christian tradition of the Last Supper: the last, 13th in a row, Judas Iscariot came to it, who betrayed Christ.