Abogado

INGLES
26-FEB-2013
BRANDON mitsubichi

THE CURSE OF THE NUMBER 13
The mere mention of the No. 13, a synonym for "bad luck", makes awaken attention. In the history of numbers, that is lost intime, the 13 goes with the fatal burden of "disgrace", teniéndosele into account in the game, the timetable, the bus ticket and the number of guests gathered in the table avoiding adding that figure. Onecould cite many other examples of interesting, including in Buenos Aires did not circulate any tram number 13 until 1913 that the perpetrators of such transportation decided to get it going. In theU.S. in the hotels of category does not exist or the floor or room 13, are identified as 12 A.
The truth is that the feeling of "bad luck" in this issue arises in the Christian people with the "LastSupper" where Jesus and his twelve disciples numbered thirteen people at the table.
In Tarot Card No. 13 represents death and is the only one of the twenty-two Major Arcana that bears his name inprint and symbolically presented with the figure of a human skeleton, covered with pink skin wielding a long-handled scythe on a assembly plants, hands and heads scattered on the floor.
For Spanishspeaking countries fateful day is Tuesday 13. This stems from the Roman tradition where the day was dedicated to Mars the god of war, Ares of the Greeks. Hence arose that "on Tuesday and you do not marryyour family shipments or turn away." However for English-speaking countries and Portuguese is Friday 13 (in Portuguese sixth feira thirteen) because on Fridays since pre-Christian times, the witches ofGreat Britain met in their covens (evening meeting of witches) to pay worship of the goddess of love, beauty and fertility, similar to the goddess Venus to the Romans, the Greeks Aphrodite andAstarte to the Phoenicians.
Some believe that Friday the 13th as a day of bad luck, emerged from the curse of the Templars to the French king Philip the Fair (which had started a smear campaign against...