An elevator without a 13th-floor button
Triskaidekaphobia is a fear of the number 13. It is usually considered to be a superstition. A specific fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia.
Thirteen may be considered a "bad" number simply because it is one more than 12, which is a popularly used number in many cultures (due to it being a highly composite number). When a group of 13 objects is divided into two, three, four or six equal groups, there is always one leftover object.
The number 13 also retains biblical meanings. At the Last Supper, Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table (also spilling the salt).
It has also been linked to that fact that a lunisolar calendar must have 13 months in some years, while the solar Gregorian calendar and lunar Islamic calendar always have 12 months in a year.
Triskaidekaphobia may have also affected the Vikings — it is believed that Loki in the Norse pantheon was the 13th god. This was later Christianised into saying that Satan was the 13th angel.
The Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1686 BC) omits 13 in its numbered list. This seems to indicate a superstition existed long before the Christian era.
A specific fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskevadekatriaphobia.
Some buildings number their floors so as to skip the thirteenth floor entirely, jumping from floor 12 to floor 14 in order to avoid distressing triskaidekaphobics, or using 12 and 12b instead. One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, the tallest building in the UK, lacks a 13th floor. Most hotel/casino megaresorts in Las Vegas also lack a 13th floor. This is sometimes applied to house or room numbers as well. The same is also true of rows in airplanes.
American singer-songwriter John Mayer had 14 tracks on his album Room for Squares, although the 13th is 0.2 seconds of silence and is not listed on the album cover.
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(Psalm 91:1-16
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Scripture Study: Psalm 91:1-16
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ReplyDeleteHehe sorry comment gw gak nyambung. Tapi pernah denger gak joke "What did Jesus and his disciples do after the Last Supper??" the answer is.."They took a picture!!" hihihi inget kan lukisan2 The Last Supper :D.
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ReplyDeleteIts a new word and a new topic for me of superstition. I feel personally, things which we are fear of, by getting heard number of times again and again, only those things makes loss for us. If you ignore and have confidence on what you do, never matters whatever phobia is there. Also, someone who is a true follower of God never gets into any trouble. After all Triskaidekaphobia is an phobia and not a truth.
ReplyDeleteagree!!!! We make things become scary and we're fear of it. I don't believe the myths ect. Only one thing I was really afraid when I was a kid, FIRE ENGINE ALARM! LOL. I had a big trauma everytime I heard that.I overcame it after I was teenager. ( I was about 5yrs old when the trauma started ). Thanks for sharing your thought.GBU!
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