As Per Your Knowledge, What Is The Significance, if any, Of Friday, the 13th ?

Question

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Today is Friday, the 13th.

Discussing the significance won't hurt any, I feel.

Over to you,

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Why is it to be feared?

Is this day the work of Satan as some
claim ?

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Answer 1

I hate Friday the 13th for obvious reasons. It was the day from h*ll for me and my love. It never bothered me before but will from now on.

Answer 2

The violent destruction of the Order of the Templars in the C14th may have contributed to the Friday 13th myth but I was always led to believe that its roots run considerably deeper. The notion that Friday 13th is unlucky stems right the way back to the New Testament of the Bible and the Last Supper. There were 13 people at the Last Supper - Jesus and his 12 disciples, which is why 13 is often considered an unlucky number in any context, whether it is connected with Friday or not. The Last Supper and the Crucifixion is marked in the religious calendar every year with Good Friday - hence it is Friday 13th which is considered to be particularly unlucky. It could also be plausible that there is some form of pagan belief about Friday 13th which pre-dates its Biblical links. The early Christian Church has a prominent history of absorbing existing pagan dates and beliefs under a different guise. This was seen as a useful way of making its own doctrine more acceptable to the people the Church was forcing its new religion upon. However I am not aware that Friday 13th carried any earlier significance for Pagans.

Answer 3

Although it is sometimes linked to Friday, October the 13th, 1307, when the Pope, in conjunction with the King of France, carried out a secret death warrant against "the Knights Templar" and terminated them as heretics, or to there being 13 men present at the Last Supper, a Friday, and one of them being Judas Iscariot, or to there traditionally being 13 witches in a coven . . . in truth, fear of Friday the 13th is largely a 20th C phenomenon, and few mentions of it date before the 19th.

However, there is quite possibly something else at work here: 12 is the number of patriarchy (12 tribes, 12 disciples, 12 months in a solar year) and 13, according to folklorists and scholars of ancient history, "13 had been revered in prehistoric goddess-worshiping cultures, because it corresponded to the number of lunar (menstrual) cycles in a year (13 x 28 = 364 days). The "Earth Mother of Laussel," for example — a 27,000-year-old carving found near the Lascaux caves in France often cited as an icon of matriarchal spirituality — depicts a female figure holding a cresent-shaped horn bearing 13 notches."

It seems farfetched, and yet, when the days were named after Roman and, in English, Germanic godhs, Friday alone was reserved for a godhess . . . Frije's Day, or Freyja's/Frigga's Day. Is it possible that some memory of goddess worship, and the threat it posed to patriarchal order and authority, has persisted in the collective unconscious all this time, and that when both the number AND the day of the Earth Goddess coincide, it's just too big a threat to handle, and must be demonized as "unlucky?"

I have no idea, and I don't think we can ever know for sure. But as a heathen, I'll be raising a horn of mead to Freyja, just in case!

Answer 4

Friday the 13th was once considered lucky according to pagans. 13 was the number in a coven including the priest or priestess, although I can't recall the significance of Friday. The Catholic church, along with MANY other pagan celebrations, destroyed this celebration in an effort to quash paganism and force everyone to convert to Catholicism. The Knights Templar were massacared, from what I understand, in another attempt to make the day considered unlucky instead of lucky as pagans viewed it. So thanks again Catholicism! Christmas used to be a celebration of the sun, Easter a fertility celebration...

Answer 5

Friday the 13th finished an hour ago over here. Nothing significant happened.

Answer 6

Friday the 13'th is a significant day. There is only 22 days left until the Hall Of Fame game. That signifies the start of pre season NFL and also the triumphant return of the one and only WASHINGTON REDSKINS!!!!

Answer 7

Thirteen is considered unlucky because Judas Iscariot (you know, the guy who sold out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver) was considered the 13th disciple.

Personally, I find that my luck tends to be pretty good on Friday 13ths.

Answer 8

The persecution of the Knights Templar began on a Friday the 13th, which is how it became an "unlucky" day.

Answer 9

It was the day back in 1000's that the Catholic church set to kill thousands of people at the same time. October 13 was on a Friday, and it has kept on till this day. Thank you, again, Catholics.

Answer 10

It is the day following Thursday the 12th and preceding Saturday the 14th, nothing more.