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by prasanna » Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:07 am
What IS the Significance of the Number 13?
1313 Mockingbird Lane. Friday the 13th and 13 black cats . Baaaad omens. It's 2009 and there remains an air of mystery surrounding the number 13, carried from dark times that still causes most of us to avoid anything associated with the number 13. High rise buildings are built without 13th floors (if there are 14 floors, there is a 13th floor but it's either skipped or renumberated?!?) , airplane flight numbers are reassigned to avoid this association.
Yet in many indigenous traditions, the number 13 is considered to have auspicious meaning and to bring blessings and happiness.
In this lense we'll look at the number 13 and debunk some of those myths and explore the true significance of the number 13.
Significance of 13: Myths and Misconceptions Around 13
To indigenous cultures the number 13 has spiritual significance and often holds prominence in ritual art, ceremonial songs, time and placement.
So where did it all go wrong? How did it go from having positive, spiritual significance to holding such an air of forboding?
It seems that the stories begins in the year 1307 during the time of forced suppressed by the King of the the Knights Templar and rumor of beginnings of Freemasonry. It makes sense that the origins of the Friday the 13th theory would be associated with these secret orders, shrouded in mystery, conspiracy to the throne and death.
Tradition says that the final act of suppression of the Knights Templar occurred on October 13, 1307. Which I am sure resulted in the violent death of Templar leaders and known associates. As the stories go the particular day of the week happened to be... Friday. And since that time, Friday the 13th has been held as the most ill-fated of all days.
Although I found no where to confirm this, only other similar incidents, I believe that it would have been consistent with the practices of some early church leaders eager to increase church followings to seize the opportunity to discredit pagan and/or indigenous beliefs by misrepresenting the significance of the number 13 and incorrectly associating it with frightening pagan rituals, secret orders, mysterious symbols, bad luck and the number 13.
Recent inquiries into hidden documents of the church along with new fields of study such as fractal geometry have opened up the conversation about numbers, esoteric knowledge and the significance of numbers in art, science even spirituality.
prasanna
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