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"Thirteen in north Indian languages is pronounced as tera, which is also a form of addressing God, " "For me, this is a lucky number. I dedicate my performances to the One Above."

Strikingly similar folkloric aspects of the number 13 have been noted in various cultures around the world: one theory is that this is due to the cultures employing lunar-solar calendars (there are approximately 12.41 lunations per solar year, and hence 12 "true months" plus a smaller, and often portentous, thirteenth month). This can be witnessed, for example, in the "12 days of Christmas" of Western European tradition.

Why is the number 13 lucky then?

To the Chinese: The digit 1 when positioned in tens sounds like the word 'definite' (shi) in Mandarin and dialects such as Cantonese; while the digit 3 sounds like life, living or birth.

As a result, the number 13, which is pronounced as shisan in Mandarin, can mean 'definitely vibrant' or 'assured growth'.

The number 13 holds great significance according to Kabbalah.

The Hebrew words for “love” (ahava), “care” (de’aga), and “one” (echad) all have the numerical value of 13.

In addition, kabbalistically, the number 13 indicates the ability to rise above the influence of the 12 signs of the Zodiac (12+1=13), not being bound by the influences of the cosmos.
Kabbalah's 13 Rules of the Game
Greek Kabala

Christianity

* There were thirteen participants at the Last Supper. Tradition states that Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table. * Thirteen was once associated with the Epiphany by Christians, as it is said the child Jesus received the Magi on his thirteenth day of life.

Sikhism

According to famous Sakhi (Evidence) or story of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, when he was an accountant at a town of Sultanpur Lodhi, he was distributing grocery to people and when he gave groceries to the 13th person he stopped there because in Gurmukhi and Hindi the word 13 is called Terah, which means yours. And Guru Nanak kept on saying, "Yours, yours, yours..." remembering God. People reported to the emperor that Guru Nanak was giving out free food to the people. When treasures were checked, there was more money than before.

The word "Waheguru" appears only 13 times in Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy scriptures and the eternal Guru.

The Vaisakhi which commemorates the creation of "Khalsa" or pure Sikh was celebrated on 13th of April for many years.

Ik Onkar also looks like 13.

So how can 13 be an unlucky number?


Judaism

* In Judaism, 13 signifies the age at which a boy matures and becomes a Bar Mitzvah (Age of 12 for Girls, or Bat Mitzvah).
* The number of principles of Jewish faith according to Maimonides * According to the Torah, God has 13 Attributes of Mercy * The number of circles, or "nodes", that make up Metatron's Cube in Kaballistic teachings.

Other

* In Mesoamerican divination, 13 is the number of important cycles of fortune/misfortune (see Trecena). * The number of Norse gods (there were 12) at a banquet that was crashed by the evil spirit Loki (making 13) who killed Baldr with an arrow/spear made out of mistletoe using Hodr, thus marking the beginning of Ragnarok.

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 sports figures have worn the number 13. Ozzie Guillén, manager of the 2005 World Series Champion Chicago White Sox, has worn the number throughout his baseball career. Alex Rodriguez began wearing it upon joining the New York Yankees (three, the number he had previously worn, is retired by the Bronx Bombers to honor Babe Ruth). Dan Marino, an American football player known for passing the 2nd most yards 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. Basketball great 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, Yao Ming wore it in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and 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 Portugal, 13 is associated with Our Lady of Fatima. Also considered a lucky number for the Lady's apparitions were always on a 13th.

Colgate University also considers 13 to be a lucky number. They were founded in 1819 by 13 men with 13 dollars, 13 prayers, and 13 articles. (To this day, members of the Colgate community consider the number 13 a good omen.) In fact, the campus address is 13 Oak Drive in Hamilton, NY and the all men a cappella group is called the Colgate 13.

In tattoo culture, where symbols often represent the opposite of their most obvious meaning,[citation needed] 13 sometimes symbolizes good luck, especially in "old school" (meaning traditional) style tattoos.

* The number of original colonies the United States was founded from. The original flag had thirteen stars, one for each state. New stars have since been added whenever a new state joins the union, but the idea of adding stripes for new states was soon dropped, so the American flag to this day has thirteen horizontal stripes: six white ones and seven red ones.
* In the Great Seal of the United States there are 13 olive leaves (with 13 olives), 13 arrows, and 13 stars. These form a triangle over the eagle with the number 13 on each point. On the reverse the pyramid has 13 levels.
* The number of guns in a gun salute to U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps Major Generals, and Navy and Coast Guard Rear Admirals Upper Half.
* The original number of members of The Thirteen Club.
* The number of loaves in a "baker's dozen"
* There are traditionally thirteen steps leading up to a gallows. It is, however, an urban myth that there are thirteen turns in a hangman's noose (there are most commonly eight turns.)
* Rondeau is a poem with 13 lines in some variants.
* Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with the 13th Legion, marking the beginning of Caesar's civil war and the eventual death of the Roman Republic.
* In some countries, the number 13 is considered unlucky and building owners will sometimes purposefully omit a floor so numbered.
* Trece is the Spanish word for thirteen; the number 13 is used to identify members of 13th Sureños - chicano gang members in the U.S. that identify themselves with la Eme - the Mexican Mafia.
* There is a gang in the San Fernando Valley, County of Los Angeles, California named Pacoima (Pacas) Flats PF-13 which is 13 .
* In the mythology of the television program, Battlestar Galactica, Earth is the 13th colony, lost after humanity left their planet of origin, Kobol, and created the Twelve Colonies
* In Thailand, the traditional Thai New Year (Songkran Day) is on April 13th.
* 13 steps is a paragraph of the Final Document (agreed by consensus) of the 2000 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
* In the television series House, Dr. Remy Hadley (Olivia Wilde) is nicknamed Thirteen, the number she was assigned in competition to fill the three vacancies in the title character's diagnostic team in Season 4.
* The number 1138 (1+1+3+8=13) is scattered through many of George Lucas' films, namely owing to the fact that one of his early films was THX 1138. In fact it is represented in all six of the Star Wars movies.
* There are 13 members of Organization XIII in Kingdom Hearts (series) where Roxas is the 13th member of Organization XIII.
* In the shojo manga Fruits Basket, 13 members of the sohma family are cursed with the twelve animal spirits of the Chinese Zodiac, plus the cat who was, according to legend left out of the Zodiac. I want the cat back in the zodiac!
* 13 is the number of the French department Bouches-du-Rhône
* The Midnighters Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld is a book entirely based on the number 13. All the spells are based on thirteen letter words. The houses all have 13 pointed stars on the doorways. The town where it takes place, Bixby,Oklahoma has thirteen letters.
* There are 13 singers in the cancer fundraiser song, Just Stand Up(to cancer).
* Before the plot was foiled, there were thirteen plotters in the Gunpowder Plot.
* 1+4+0+8=13. This was also made into a horror movie called 1408.


A lucky prime is a lucky number that is prime. It is not known whether there are infinitely many lucky primes.
The first few are
3, 7, 13, 31, 37, 43, 67, 73, 79, 127, 151, 163, 193 (sequence A031157 in OEIS).

Friday the 13th-
Paraskevidekatriaphobics (The term is based on the Greek words: paraskevi - Friday dekatria - thirteen -phobia - indicates fear) — people afflicted with a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th — should be pricking up their ears about now, buoyed by seeming evidence that the source of their unholy terror may not be so irrational after all. But it's unwise to take solace in a single scientific study, especially one so peculiar. I suspect these statistics have more to teach us about human psychology than the ill-fatedness of any particular date on the calendar. Friday the 13th, the most widespread superstition Friday the 13th is a superstition about a day of good or bad luck. The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times, and their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year (there happen to be three such occurrences in 2009, two of them right in a row) portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear. According to experts it's the most widespread superstition in the United States today. Some people won't go to work on Friday the 13th; some won't eat in restaurants; many wouldn't think of setting a wedding on the date. How many Americans at the turn of the new millennium actually suffer from this condition? According to Dr. Donald Dossey, a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of phobias (and coiner of the term paraskevidekatriaphobia, also spelled paraskavedekatriaphobia), the figure may be as high as 21 million. If he's right, eight percent of Americans are still in the grips of a very old superstition. It appears, however, that only about 10% of us believe that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th


February 13 Birthdays

* 1974 Robbie Williams (singer, entertainer)
* 1950 Peter Gabriel (singer, video maker)
* 1944 Stockard Channing (actress)
* 1944 Jerry Springer (TV Host)
* 1942 Peter Tork (guitarist, singer, tv performer)
* 1942 Carol Lynley (Jones) (actress)
* 1941 Bo Svenson (actor)
* 1938 Oliver Reed (actor)
# 1934 George Segal (actor)
# 1933 Kim (Marilyn) Novak (actress)
# 1930 Dotty McGuire (singer)
# 1925 Gene Ames (singer)
# 1923 Chuck Yeager (aviator)
# 1920 Eileen Farrell (opera singer)
# 1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford (country singer)
# 1911 Jean Muir (Fullarton) (actress)
# 1892 Grant Wood (painter)
# 1885 Bess Truman (wife of president truman)
# 1873 L.L. Bean (founder mail-order company)
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/13-february/births.html

oh and mine...




HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONG (live in Coimbra, Portugal )
when I wake up/ in the morning/ I pour the coffee/ read the paper/ then I slowly/ and so softly/ do the dishes/ feed the fishes/ sing me Happy Birthday/ sing it like it's going to be your last day/ like it's halleujah/ don't just let it pass on through ya/ it's a giant among cliches/ and thats why I want you to sing it anyway/ sing me Happy Birthday/ cause hell what's it all about/ anyway/ sing me Happy Birthday/ Happy Birthday/ like it's gonna be your last day/ here on earth

Black Sabbath's eponymous debut album was released in the UK on Friday, February 13, 1970. The day I was born!

So, why worry! Have a great weekend!

Thought for the weekend:

Piglet: How do you spell love?
Pooh: You don't spell it... you feel it.