OT: Origins and Myths - Friday the 13th

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Happy Friday the 13th folks, and I hope y'all have a great weekend!

 

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from: http://www.crystalinks.com/friday13th.html

Origins and Myths - Friday the 13th

 

Friday the thirteenth is considered the unluckiest of days, unless you

were born on Friday the thirteenth. If you were born on this day then

Friday the thirteenth is your lucky day.

The origins of Friday superstitions are many. One of the best known is

that Eve tempted Adam with the apple on a Friday. Tradition also has it

that the Flood in the Bible, the confusion at the Tower of Babel, and

the death of Jesus Christ all took place on Friday.

Long before the Bible was written, Friday was considered an important

day. Primitive people set aside Fridays as a special time to worship

their deities and ask them for good crops, health and happiness. Those

who worked on this day were told not to expect " good luck " from the

gods.

 

The day Friday was named after Frigg {or Frigga}. Later she was confused

with the goddess of love, Freya, who in turn became identified with

Friday. When the Norsemen and Germanic tribes became Christians, Freya

was supposed to have been banished to the mountains as a witch.

Friday came to be called " witches' Sabbath. " For it was believed that on

this day, each week, twelve witches and the Devil met - thirteen evil

spirits up to no good!

This is just one of the explanations for our superstition about Friday

the 13th.

 

French Explanation

 

The king of France at the turn of the fourteenth century was known as an

uncommonly handsome man.

He was called Philip le Bel, the Beautiful, or Philip The Fair an ironic

epithet for a king of Gothic pitilessness.

He betrayed the Knights Templar.

Because of the French king's constant financial problems, relations

between Paris and Rome had degenerated into a ludicrous state.

The Beautiful had exhausted all the usual medieval methods for balancing

the books. He had stolen property, arrested all the Jews, and devalued

his currency. As a last resort, he tried to tax the church.

Pope Boniface VIII was a fat and dissolute pontiff.

One contemporary described him as " nothing but eyes and tongue in a

wholly putrefying body . . . a devil. "

The Beautiful himself openly referred to him as, " Your Fatuity. " But

Boniface knew the rules of the game as well.

In retaliation for France's new fiscal arrangements, the pope issued a

dictum forbidding the taxation of the clergy.

So the Beautiful closed French borders to the exportation of gold

bullion, cutting off Rome's transalpine money supply.

To rub it in, he arrested the bishop of Pamiers and charged him with

blasphemy, sorcery, and fornication.

In retaliation the pope issued a bull condemning the arrest and revoked

some of the Beautiful's papal privileges.

The Beautiful burned his copy of the bull in public.

The pope delivered a stinging sermon filled with ominous warnings that

the church was a creature with one head, not a monster with two.

The Beautiful issued charges, in absentia, against the pope himself,

alleging blasphemy, sorcery, and sodomy.

The pope excommunicated the Beautiful. He compared the French to dogs

and hinted that they lacked souls. His nuncios leaked a rumor that the

pontiff might well excommunicate the entire country.

The peasants were stirred by such threats and the Beautiful quickly

grasped that revolution was a better future to them than

excommunication. So he acted fast, dispatching an army to Anagni, where

the pope was staying.

He placed the eighty-six-year-old pontiff under house arrest.

The locals managed to save him, but a month later Boniface passed away.

Some allege he succumbed to shock at the outrage; other sources say that

he beat his head against a wall until he died.

After a pliable pope assumed office, the Beautiful returned to his

economic problems.

His wife died in 1305, and since he no longer would have to kiss a

woman's lips, he applied for membership in the Knights Templar.

The permanent knights of the Paris Temple may have suspected that his

intentions were less than pious and did something almost unspeakable:

they blackballed the king.

The following year, the grand master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de

Molay, returned to Europe from the Mediterranean in a show of luxury.

He was accompanied by sixty knights and a baggage train of mules laden

with gold and jewels.

Around that time the Beautiful was more desperate than ever to solve his

messy state finances: he tripled the price of everything in France

overnight.

Open rebellion broke out in the streets. Rioters threatened to kill him.

 

He fled to the Parisian temple and begged the knights for protection.

It was all very humiliating.

In the fall of 1307, the Beautiful arranged a state action impressive

even in these days of data highways and rapid deployment teams.

On September 14 he mass-mailed a set of sealed orders to every bailiff,

seneschal, deputy and officer in his kingdom.

The functionaries were forbidden under penalty of death to open the

papers before Thursday night, October 12.

The following Friday morning, alert to their secret instructions, armies

of officials slipped out of their barracks.

By sundown nearly all the Knights Templar throughout France were in

jails.

One estimate puts the arrests at two thousand, another as high as five

thousand.

Only twenty escaped.

The initial charges were vague, but they didn't sound good: " A bitter

thing, a lamentable thing, a thing horrible to think of and terrible to

hear, a detestable crime, an execrable evil, an abominable act, a

repulsive disgrace, a thing almost inhuman, indeed alien to all

humanity, has, thanks to the reports of several trustworthy persons,

reached our ear, smiting us grievously and causing us to tremble with

the utmost horror. "

What followed was so foul, according to folklore, that Templar

sympathizers cursed the day itself, condemning it as evil - Friday the

thirteenth - whose reputation never recovered. "

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Friday The Thirteenth - Bible - And Numbers

 

The Bible is often considered a book of numbers. In the Bible the

numbers 7, 12 and 40 appear throughout the Old and New Testaments.

The number 12 is considered a lucky number.

As a result, the number which follows 12 was thought to be evil.

Known scientifically as " Tridecaphobia, " fear of the number 13 is

probably the most common of all superstitions.

Buildings avoid numbering the 13th floor. Airplanes avoid the 13th

aisle. And most common of all, Friday the 13th is considered a bad luck

day.

Psychologists believe that Friday the 13th will become a day of bad luck

if people focus on the day because people will create their own bad luck

by paying attention to the superstition.

Feeding energy into anything - especially a superstition - can cause

manifestation of the event - as the consciousness grids are reacting.

Remember the grids and the universe are mathematical. They respond to

geometry - numbers - the primary language of the Universe.

When many people believe that an event is negative - dark - evil - based

on a date - or number or sequence of numbers - this can cause

disruptions in the grid harmonics - and cause the event to happen.

It is not unlike believing that a curse has been put on you - or your

family - or someone you know.

The more you believe that it is real - the more you will create that

reality in the grids.

You maybe simply looking for the drama of events linked to a specific

superstition.

If you do not play within the parimeters of that energy - you won't even

give it a second thought.

You can tune into the frequency of the superstition - fear - and

experience the strength of it.

If you believe that everytime there is a Friday the 13th - something bad

will befall you - then you will manifest an event of that type.

As far as digits go - they do have meaning as they are creational. It

would follow that some digits are triggers - some are lucky - and some

will signify the polarity - negative energies!

Number 13 has had its share of troubles. It is 1+3=4= completion for

many things. But haven't bad things happened on other dates?

In ancient civilizations - Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew,

Christian - people believed in Magik - the power of the Magician to

caste a spell - the power of the Gods to create, etc. Much of it was all

based on control by fear! We are giving up fear, right?

We have seen the tricks - the illusions - the magic - the clown - in all

of the cultures we have looked at in recent months. It is in the

program. Number 4 - the final trick! The main event for the trickster -

or he just part of the illusion.

Trickery makes us believe creation is external to us when it is quite

the opposite. The trickster challenges you.

to think to question things to get past negative emotions until you

finally see the truth in what is occurring.

 

from: http://www.crystalinks.com/friday13th.html