Why is "13" considered an unlucky number? Why do people call him the damn dozen? This sign was also born in ancient times. In ancient Babylon, a state on the shores of the Persian Gulf, the most remarkable number was "12" – "a dozen", from the Old Russian word "to squeeze" – that is, "be able", hence the ace of cards – from the French douze, the number 12 is divided into many numbers, and the next number 13 is not divisible by anything – it turns out "damn dozen". The Babylonians divided the year into 12 months. Their days were divided into 24 hours, or 12 double hours, every hour – 60 minutes, or 5 times 12. In addition, this number was very convenient for counting. After all, it can be divided into 2, 3, 4, and 6 without remainder. Therefore, it was taken as a unit of measurement. Quite unlike the "12" was the "13" that followed it. He could not be divided by any number except himself. That's why they began to consider him unlucky, a damn dozen. In 1307, on Friday, October 13, arrests of Templars (French – templars), members of the Catholic spiritual and knightly order, began en masse in France by order of King Philip the Beautiful. The king was afraid of a strong order, the Templars were engaged in usury, trade, were the largest bankers in Western Europe. This event became known in Europe, and therefore the consciousness that this day is unlucky was fixed in public opinion. Numerology believes that it is impossible to celebrate one's 40th birthday (the release of all waters from the body, the growth of hair, nails of the deceased does not occur immediately, biochemical processes are still taking place in the body – metabolism is going on, heat is released, hence the "marking" of commemorations for the deceased for 3, 9, 12 days), and each digit also it is sacred.
Apocalypse, 13:18 Wisdom is here. Whoever has a mind, count the number of the beast, for this is a human number; his number is six hundred and sixty-six. (Allegories, reasons, comparisons. In many ancient peoples, including the Jews, numbers were denoted by different letters of the alphabet, in Hebrew words are read from right to left: nun (50); vav (6); nes (200); nun (50); nes (200); sameh (60); kuf (100) in the sum of the numerical values is given the number 666, that is, it turns out "Caesar Nero", Caesar – Caesar, emperor, the book of Podolsky B. "Practical grammar of the Hebrew language", edited by prof. Dolgopolsky, Tarbut Association, Tel Aviv, 1985. Geche G. in the book "Biblical Stories" writes (p. 300): "An example of how easy it is to go the wrong way in the process of "interpretation" is the number 666, symbolizing the beast that came out of the earth. "Whoever has a mind, count the number of the beast, for this is the number of a man; his number is six hundred and sixty-six" (13:18). This appeal has been taken very seriously for centuries. Considering that the letters of the Hebrew, as well as the Greek and Latin alphabets, have a numerical value, we tried to find out whose name is hidden behind the mysterious number. If the Greek version of the name of Emperor Nero is written in Hebrew letters, the sum of the numerical values of the letters will give exactly the number 666. Medieval heretics saw the embodiment of the "animal number" in the pope, considering him the Antichrist. The pope himself called himself "vicar of the son of God" (Vicarius Filii Dei). If this Latin expression is translated into the language of numbers, the result will be the same: 666. V=5 I=1 C=100 And R I=1 U=5 S F I=1 L=50 I=1 I=1 D=500 E I=1 112+554=666 Of course these calculations can be continued and, with the help of some tricks, prove that many names denote the Antichrist. It is quite obvious that the Revelation reflected the Judaic mysticism of numbers, because, according to the Judaists, the numbers 3 and 7 were saints. Hence comes the triple seven 777 as an expression of the holy of holies. If you take one from each seven, then you get 666 – the embodiment of evil. That is, 666 is a symbol of evil, godlessness, the Antichrist himself, who cannot be identified with any of the people").
Where did this "sacred" number 40 come from? It is possible, of course, that the Jews "wandered through the desert", all there and extinct, a different number of years, this is a kind of fitting of the numbers to the "sacred" figure. Maybe 2 times less. The chronology of the Jews from ancient times was conducted according to the time of the reign of the kings, important political events. The calendar was introduced from the "creation of the world", the annual count of months and days was twofold: the spring month of Nisan (modern March – April) was considered the beginning of the "sacred" year, the beginning of the civil year was the autumn month of tishri (September – October), dating back to the worship of the days of the spring and autumn equinoxes. But nevertheless. One of the versions: the ancient tribes of the future Indo–Europeans lived for a long time – millennia in the north of the Earth in the Arctic Circle, where the climate at that time was much warmer, until the last Wurm glaciation (from 70 to 11 thousand years ago), where the polar day at 68 ° north latitude lasts 40 days, and in the area of the North Pole – six months. Hence the wake in 40 days, six months, a year. The Danish linguist Holger Pedersen (1867-1953) hypothesized the genetic connection of the languages of several major families that were considered unrelated. He called these languages "nostratic" (from Lat. noster is ours). The research of the Soviet linguist Vladimir Markovich Illich-Svitych (1934-1966) showed the scientific validity of combining Indo-European, Semitic-Hamitic (which includes Jews), Uralic, Altaic and some languages into a large nostratic macrofamily of languages. This macrofamily was formed in the Upper Paleolithic on the territory of Southwest Asia and adjacent areas. At first glance, it seems: what does the polar day have to do with it? But on the second, everything becomes clear if we proceed from the fact that humanity at that time, being in a mental infancy, connected everything with the "deified" sky, where the "celestials" live, who direct all processes on Earth. And the main deified "celestials" are the Sun and the Moon, they exert their influence on the Earth, and if you do as they do, then luck always awaits in everything. Example: archaeologists find in one of the oldest cities in the world Jericho (from Hebrew "moon city") decapitated corpses of people aged 8-10 thousand years. Scientists have asked the question: why did the heads of the corpses separate and were buried separately? By the way, cult beheadings and bounty hunting are known in many parts of the world and are found up to the present day. The answer is that they imitated what was happening in heaven. The moon gradually wanes from day to day, until its entire "head", the entire "face" completely disappears. The phenomena of a headless and flawed moon are observed so often that it is difficult to deny the appearance of such thoughts in naive ancient humanity. What was the purpose of this imitation? Why did it become necessary to cut off the heads of the dead, as they cut off the "head" of the moon in heaven? The thing is that the severed "head" of the moon is reborn again, and from month to month the moon begins its new life. So why shouldn't a person's life repeat itself forever! So the priests killed Moses, believing that he would rise again. There were other modifications of such views, everything that resembled a crescent moon, a solar disk, and these are bull horns, a ship, barges-boats – everything became deified. The idea of the "divine trinity" (3 * 3 = 9, commemoration of the dead in 3 and 9 days) was formed in ancient times. The Trinity existed in the religions of Ancient Egypt (Osiris, Isis, Horus), Ancient India (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva), Babylonia (Anu, Ea, Bel), etc., reflecting the fact of the existence of a monogamous family (dad, mom and child, the role of mom is downplayed due to the rule of patriarchy). According to a number of researchers, the trinity of gods arose as a link between polytheism and monotheism during the transition from polytheism to monotheism, the heavenly trinity in ancient times consisted of the Sun, Moon and Venus (it is also possible that instead of Venus it was Sirius, Jupiter or other planets). In addition, the "sacred" 3 and 9 are also associated with heaven. The moon, as you know, is visible in the sky for 27 days, and during this time it changes its state three times: a new moon, a full moon and a waning month. Three states are three "weeks" of nine days each. Then the moon disappears for three nights (the fourth "week") and lights up again, rejuvenated. The time when the moon ruled over the world was reflected in various kinds of "far away kingdoms" (for far away lands – in the ancient count of nines: far away – twenty-seven, far away – thirty lands, kingdoms. Horned gods – that is, priests with animal horns (totems), if the horns resemble a crescent moon, then this is moon worship). These fairy—tale plots are among the most ancient. So there were four main sacred numbers: 3, 4, 9, 27. Another was the eight. One can, of course, consider it as a double four, but the hypothesis of the German professor-historian R. von Lichtenberg deserves more attention that "there was once a time when the Aryans could count only up to eight and began a new category of numbers with nine. This follows from philological observations …". The Japanese eight means "very much". The "eight virtues" of Buddhists