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	The number 13 In religion	673 dni temu
	Christianity The number of participants at the Last Supper. According to Matthew 10:2-5 there were twelve apostles, not thirteen. Thirteen was once associated with the Epiphany by Christians, the child Jesus having received the Magi on his thirteenth day of life. Judaism In Judaism, 13 signifies the age at which a boy or girl matures and becomes a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah. The number of principles of Jewish faith according to Maimonides According to the Torah, God has 13 Attributes of Mercy A Significant Number For various reasons 13 is considered a number carrying a special significance in many cultures. Unlucky 13 Thirteen is regarded as an unlucky number in many cultures. Fear of the number 13 is termed triskaidekaphobia. The thirteenth of a month is likewise ominous, particularly when it falls on a Friday in some English-speaking cultures, Russia and Germany (see Friday the 13th) or a Tuesday in the Greek and Spanish-speaking world. The number 13 also is very unlucky at hotels. In some hotels the 13th floor and the room number 13 are excluded. There is also a superstition that should thirteen sit at a table to dine, one will die in the next year, a superstition that prompted the formation of The Thirteen Club to debunk it. Suggested explanations Thirteen may be considered a "bad" number simply because when a group of 13 objects or people is divided into two, three, four or six equal groups, there is always one leftover, or "unlucky", object or person. It was suggested by Charles A. Platt writing in 1925 that the reason 13 is considered unlucky is that a person can count from 1-12 with their 8 fingers, two thumbs and 2 feet, but not beyond that, so the number 13 is unknown, hence frightening, hence unlucky. This idea discounts the use of toes or other body parts in counting. Some Christian traditions have it that at the Last Supper, Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table. According to another interpretation, the number 13 is unlucky because it is the number of full moons in a contemporary year, but two full moons in a single calendar month (mistakenly referred to as a blue moon in a magazine article of the 1940s) only happens about every 2.5 years. Early nursery rhymes stated there were thirteen months in a year because of the natural moon cycle that was used to count the lunar year. In England, a calendar of thirteen months of 28 days each, plus one extra day, known as "a year and a day" was still in use up to Tudor times. The lunar year was the easiest to count for cultures before scientific methods existed to observe the movement of the earth around the sun, so it was associated with worship of the pagan Great Goddess[citation needed] for thousands of years, which may be another reason for 13 becoming a taboo number. Taboo often is misunderstood when only half of the totem and taboo relationship is recognized. Among religions having totem and taboo characteristics, that which is taboo on a regular basis may become quite sacred on special occasions. In Tarot decks, the 13th card of the Major Arcana is Death. While Death is rarely interpreted literally, it is possible that this furthered the perception of 13 as an unlucky number. Another hypothesis about the origin of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day is attributed to this being the day that the Knights Templar were slaughtered in a collaboration between King Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V finishing with the burning at the stake of Jacques De Molay. The legion with which Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon was the Legio XIII Gemina or the 13th legion. 13 is the 6th prime number. 6 is sometimes considered an unlucky number due to its association with 666. Examples In Scotland, there is no gate 13 in any airport, instead there is a gate 12B. Some airplanes skip a row 13, going straight from 12 to 14. Some tall buildings have resorted to skipping the "thirteenth floor", either by numbering it "14" or as "12a". Some streets do not contain a house number 13. In many cultures, getting married on any day of the week that falls under number 13 is highly discouraged. The Code of Hammurabi, a collection of laws created ca. 1760 BC, does not contain a thirteenth law. On the 13th day of the Persian new year (Norouz), people consider staying at home unlucky, and go outside for a picnic in order to ward off the bad luck. Most race car drivers consider 13 a very unlucky number, as a car carrying that number has never won the Indianapolis 500 or a NASCAR Nextel Cup race, and almost all Formula 1 teams are no longer given the number 13 when car numbers are given out to teams on basis of points. Usually the team finishing seventh in the previous year's championship will take numbers 14 and 15, instead of 13 and 14. Only once in recent years (1991, Ricky Johnson) has an AMA Motocross rider chosen #13 instead of #14. Some NASCAR tracks refuse to have a pit stall #13. At the Universal Studios sound stages in California, there is no sound stage numbered 13. Microsoft plans to skip Office 13 for being "an unlucky number," going directly from Office 12 to Office 14. The creators of the online game Kingdom of Loathing avoid the number 13 in all of their programming. The College of William and Mary claims 13 priorities, or achievements of the academic world, which they accomplished before any other university or college in the United States. For example, William and Mary was the first college in the US to establish an honor code. A marble plaque commemorating these 13 priorities hangs on the exterior wall of the Wren Building, the nation's oldest academic building still in continuous use. Today, the Wren Building houses the college's Religious Studies department. The Apollo 13 spacecraft malfunctioned on April 13th, forcing it to return to Earth without a landing on the moon and imperiling its crew. Lucky 13 In Sikhism, the number 13 is considered a special number since 13 is tera in Punjabi, which also means "yours" (as in, "I am yours, O Lord"). The legend goes that when Guru Nanak Dev was taking stock of items as part of his employment with a village merchant, he counted from 1 to 13 (in Punjabi) as one does normally; and thereafter he would just repeat "tera", since all items were God's creation. The merchant confronted Guru Nanak about this, but found everything to be in order after the inventory was checked. April 13 also usually turns out to be Vaisakhi every year, which is the Sikh New Year and the major Sikh Holiday. Several successful athletes have worn the number 13. Alex Rodriguez is said to be one of the most talented baseball players ever; he has also signed the biggest sports contract and wears the number 13. Dan Marino, an American football player known for passing more yards than any other quarterback in NFL history, wore the number 13, although pundits in the sport have often cited him as the greatest quarterback never to win an NFL championship. Another athlete Wilt Chamberlain wore the number 13 on his jersey throughout his NBA career. Also, FIBA rules require a player to wear the number in international competitions (only numbers from 4 to 15 could be worn, and as there are 12 players, one must wear 13); Chris Mullin, who wore #20 in college and #17 in the NBA, wore #13 for both (1984 and 1992) of his Olympic appearances. Shaquille O'Neal wore #13 in 1996, Tim Duncan wore #13 in 2004, Steve Nash is currently wearing it for the Phoenix Suns, and also Mats Sundin, wears 13 in the NHL. One of Iceland's all time best handball players, Sigurður Sveinsson, wore the number 13 when he played for the national team. In Italy, 13 is also considered to be a lucky number. In mythology The number of circles, or "nodes", that make up Metatron's Cube. The number of Norse gods (there were 12) at a banquet that was crashed by the evil spirit Loki (making 13) who killed one of the guests with a poison arrow. Age 13 For many Anglophones, it is at this point when a person officially becomes a teenager or a person in between childhood and adulthood. In Jewish tradition a boy becomes bar mitzvah at age 13, when a ceremony is held and the boy reads from the Torah for the first time. In sports There are 13 players in a rugby league team. In rugby union one of the centres, most often but not always the outside centre, wears the 13 shirt Basketball Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain wore number 13. Three NBA teams, plus the Harlem Globetrotters, have retired his number. Phoenix Suns Steve Nash wears number 13. Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino wore number 13 for the Miami Dolphins, who retired his number in 2000. New York Jets quarterback Don Maynard wore number 13 for the New York Jets, who retired his number in 1972. Pro baseball player Alex Rodriguez wears number 13. Pro future hall of fame NBA guard and second all time assist leader Mark Jackson wore number 13. Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner, a two-time MVP, wears number 13. New York Giants quarterback Jared Lorenzen wears number 13. Atlanta Falcons quarterback Joey Harrington wears number 13. Minnesota Viking quarterback Kelly Holcomb wears number 13. Australian Football League player Dale Thomas wears number 13. Toronto Maple Leafs and captain Mats Sundin wears number 13. Also led Team Sweden to Gold Medal as captain wearing number 13
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1 komentarz:

	Robert Anthony Ellis mówi…	673 dni temu
	13 is my lucky number....... born on friday the 13th july hehe many years ago.
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