Why Do People Consider 7 To Be Lucky And 13 To Be Unlucky ?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Seven is the number of Heaven, home of God. The ancients imagined that the heavens were divided into seven layers : Sun, Moon, and the five visible planets Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. The seven days of the week are based on these.
So seven=heaven=holy=lucky.
Unlucky 13 is based on a passage from the Bible. The 13th seat at the Last Supper belonged to Judas the Betrayer of Christ. So 13 came to be regarded as an inauspicious number.
There may have also been an ancient Greek influence, since their 13th major god was Hades king of the dead (the other 12 were the gods of heaven). They also had a 13th leap month which was interposed into the calendar every few years in mid winter and which was regarded as sacred to the dead, so somewhat unlucky in superstition.
