Born on the 13th…
Triskaidekaphobia
is an abnormal fear of the number 13
Paraskevidekatriaphobia
is the fear of Friday the 13th.
The number 13 is synonymous with bad
luck. It's considered unlucky to have 13 guests at a dinner party, many cities
do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue, architects frequently omit a
13th floor from their plans, many hotels do not have a room number 13 and most
people avoid to get married or to buy a house on a day marked by this dreaded
number. Especially some superstitious people of Europe even avoid driving on
Friday the 13th.
Why this number is the most dreaded
one all over the world?
No one seems to know exactly why this
came to be so, but there are many possible explanations. It had started
from the primitive stages of life. Primitive man had only 10 fingers and 2 feet
to represent units, so he could not count higher than 12. For him what lay
beyond that (i.e. 13) was a mystery and there man started to believe that 13 is
an unlucky number.
At the time of Alexander the Great,
12 Gods were known, one for each month. Our guy Alexander wanted to be the
thirteenth God and erected a statue next to the 12th God in his capital. Soon
after the statue is opened for public viewing he died! After that the Governor
ordered to remove the statue.
There were 13 members present at the
Last Supper and we know one of the dinner guest betrayed Jesus Christ, because
of Judas’s act Jesus got crucified. So people started to avoid 13 Guests for a
party.
Apollo 13 was the only unsuccessful
mission by the United States of America's NASA program to land a mission on the
moon, although fortunately all of the craft's crew returned to Earth safely.
Hindus follow the thirteenth day from
death as a memorial feast in our country.
(References from the book 13 by
Potent Communications)
Why I’m stating these historical
references here…
(To be continued…)
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