Do all countries consider the number 13 to bring bad luck? Detailed answer

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Do all countries consider the number 13 to bring bad luck?

The ill-fated devil's dozen - thirteen - was unloved by the ancient Greeks. Hesiod (VIII-VII century BC) in the poem "Works and Days" warned the peasants to start sowing on the 13th in order to avoid crop failure. In the Babylonian leap year, there was a leap month, which was given the sign "crow of misfortune".

And in our time, because of the fear of the number 13, in some hotels in the UK and the USA there are no rooms with the number 13, the elevator does not stop on the 13th floor (it is simply omitted in the numbering). There are no such public transport routes, and on the airlines of most foreign countries, aircraft until recently did not have tail number 13. Athletes avoid putting this number on their T-shirts. But there are 13 Buddhas in the Indian Pantheon. The same number of mystical discs are on Chinese and Indian pagodas. In Japan, in the Temple of Arteus, there is a sacred saber with 13 mysteries forming its handle.

At the end of the 12th century, a wooden cathedral of St. Sophia "on thirteen peaks" was built in Novgorod, symbolizing Jesus and the XNUMX apostles. In the first half of the XNUMXth century, the temple burned down. But the unusual thirteen domes became widespread in stone buildings of later times. In particular, it can be seen at the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.

As you can see, our ancestors did not share mystical fear of the number 13.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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