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Unlucky
Numbers 4 In
China, this number is unlucky because: "· 四
[sēi]
— considered unlucky since 4 is a homophone
with the word for death or suffering 死 [sěi],
yet in the Shanghainese, it is a
homophone of water (水)and is
considered lucky since water is associated with money." - Wikipedia The
number is the final 3 words (transliterated: hexakósioi
hexēkonta héx),
meaning "six hundred sixty-six". 13 "The number 13 is associated with bad luck in
some countries, and even has a specifically recognized phobia,
Triskaidekaphobia, a word which was coined in 1911. Friday the
13th has been considered an unlucky day since the 1800s, as a
combination between an unlucky day, Friday, and the number 13. Another theory
as to why the date and number 13 is considered unlucky is that, on the day of
Friday the 13th after the final Crusade the pope had sent out men
to capture and burn alive the last 13 Knights
Templar in order to put an end to the Crusades. Another theory states that the number 13 is
unlucky because, when in years where there were 13 full moons instead of 12,
it made it difficult for the monks who were in charge of the calendars.
"This was considered a very unfortunate circumstance, especially by the
monks who had charge of the calendar of thirteen months for that year, and it
upset the regular arrangement of church festivals. For this reason thirteen
came to be considered an unlucky number." - Wikipedia 666 "In the New
Testament, the Book of
Revelation (13:17-18) cryptically asserts 666 to be "the
number of a man," associated with the beast,
an antagonistic creature that appears briefly about two-thirds into the
apocalyptic vision. In modern popular culture, 666 has become one of
the most widely recognized symbols for the Antichrist
or, alternately, the Devil.
Earnest references to 666 occur both among apocalypticist Christian
groups and in explicitly anti-Christian subcultures. An appearance of the number
666 in contemporary Western art or literature is, more likely than not, an
intentional reference to this number of the Beast symbolism. Such popular
references to 666 are too numerous to list. It is not uncommon to see the symbolic role of the
integer 666 transferred to the digit sequence 6-6-6. Some
people take the Satanic associations of 666 so seriously that they actively
avoid things related to 666 or the digits 6-6-6. This is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia."
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