Unlucky 13?

Unlucky 13 – or is it Lucky Thirteen?

To almost everyone except Egyptians and the Chinese, the number thirteen has always been an outcast among numbers. It has had a bad reputation since the beginning of man when he/she learned to count, as far as we can tell.

But if you live in the USA maybe you should rethink the traditional bad luck number thirteen. The older folks might know about the thirteen in American history, but that’s a big might. I don’t remember learning about it in school. I had heard of a story about the number thirteen before, but I don’t think it was in school, and I totally forgot about it.

US Dollar Bill, reverse side

Consider thirteen as unlucky, if you must, but if you live in the United States you’ve surely been carrying around the Lucky Thirteen around with you unwittingly since you were a youngster.

Since at least 1935 the design on the one dollar bill, the back of it, embraces the number thirteen. It’s part of the Great Seal of the United States. Its design bridges the ancient Egyptian allegorical motifs to our own times. The symbolic use of the number thirteen is arranged on each of the two sides of the seal.

If you look very closely you will see that on the left side of the rear of the dollar bill is an uncompleted pyramid. It has 13 steps to it. On the other side across from it the part of the Great Seal with the eagle on it, you will find the eagle holding thirteen arrows in the right talons. There are thirteen leaves and berries in the left talons of the eagle.

In case you didn’t know, that native American eagle is symbolic of invincibility, whereas in ancient Egypt the Egyptian golden eagle was the bird of regeneration. Hmm, that sounds pretty similar.

The design on the dollar bill was ordered by the then Secretary of the Treasury at the time. All Americans should know that the many uses of the number thirteen on the bill refer to the original thirteen colonies. That’s indeed a lucky number for the hundreds of Americans today.

There is more to say about the unlucky, or is it lucky nature of the number 13, but we will cover it in another article. Just be aware that even if you still think that thirteen is an unlucky number that if it were not for the original thirteen colonies in the U.S. you just might not be here today.

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