A History Of Friday The 13th

Top 2. Apr 16, 2001 5:47 AM

» LindaC_02 - Re: wow

In response to message posted by Pyromaniac89:

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

-- posted by LindaC_02

http://www.euroknightstemplar.org/histor...

Top 3. Jun 13, 2001 8:03 AM

» Paladin2k - Friday the 13th

An excerpt from;

The history of the Teutonic Knights the 1300's...

"The French King prepared his case with secrecy and skill. The death of the pope gave him the opportunity to suborn his successor. On Friday the thirteenth of October 1307, Jaques de Molay Grand Master of the Templars, and sixty of his senior knights were arrested in Paris: simultaneously many thousands of other Templars were arrested throughout the realm of France. A few escaped arrest and once the word got out the remainder simply fled; an episode commemorated by the saying Friday the thirteenth, unlucky for some."

This could be considered historical proof and or fact...

-- posted by Paladin2k

Top 4. Jun 13, 2001 9:25 AM

» LindaC_02 - Re: Friday the 13th

In response to message posted by Paladin2k:

Hi!

Thanks for the info.
Yes indeed, the terrible fate of the Templar Knights in relation to Friday the 13th is also an indicator of why that date is so ominous.

Linda C.

-- posted by LindaC_02

Top 5. Apr 7, 2002 1:43 PM

» Gaia1 - Re: Friday the 13th - More

In response to message posted by Paladin2k:

Friday the 13th is also considered unlucky because there are thirteen lunar months in a year, and the day Friday (named after the Goddess Frigga) was sacred to many Goddesses, including Aphrodite, Venus, and their African counterpart Yemaja.

While anciently the Moon was revered as magical because it is constantly cycling and renewing, Patriarchal world-views associated the moon with
darkness and chaos.

As Patriarchal dualisms became more entrenched in Western culture, the entire universe was split into two opposing dualities:

LIST A LIST B
Light - Dark
Day - Night
Sun - Moon
Heaven - Earth
Order - Chaos
Logic - Emotion
Spirit - Matter
Mind - Body
Above - Below

Everything in LIST A was seen as superior, good, while everything in LIST B was seen as evil and dangerous. For the universe to function safely, LIST A was supposed to "rule over" and hold in check LIST B.
And guess which gender these mostly male patriarchal philosophers associated with LIST A -- right, males. Females were associated with LIST B.
This was the philosophical rationale for women being associated with everything from the moon to emotions, to bodiliness, to the Earth; and it was also the rationale for white males ruling over everything from the Earth to dark-skinned peoples, to females.

Thus the Goddess, like women, was associated with darkness, chaos, bodiliness, emotion, lunar consciousness, changeability and chaos -- and She, like her human manifestations, was perceived as evil and dangerous.
Everything associated with Goddess worship/ spirituality was demonized: the Cauldron that had been Her sacred womb of rebirth and regeneration became a dangerous container of frightening brews; Her sacred Serpent, symbol of ever-renewing regeneration because of its ever-renewing skin, and symbol of deep, cthonic oracular wisdom because of the Priestesses' use of venom, was turned into a symbol of dangerous, "earthy," evil, forbidden knowledge.
The Goddesses' sacred holy day, Friday, the traditional day of love and passion -- was diabolized, as was the number of moons in a year -- thirteen.

For more on this, see any of the following:

a) Barbara G. Walker's _Women's Encyclopedia of Symbols and Sacred Objects_ and its companion volume, _The Women's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects_;
b) Mary Daly's _Beyond God the Father_
and
c) Rosemary Radford Ruether's _Sexism and God-Talk_.

-- posted by Gaia1