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Volume #83, December/2009

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Immanuel Velikovsky

Worlds In Collision

By Immanuel Velikovsky

"13"

“At midnight” all the houses of Egypt were smitten; “there was not a house where there was not one dead.” This happened on the night of the fourteenth of the month Aviv (Exodus 12:6; 13:4). This is the night of Passover. It appears that the Israelites originally celebrated Passover on the eve of the fourteenth of Aviv.

The month Aviv is called “the first month” (Exodus 12:18). Thout was the name of the first month of the Egyptians. What, for the Israelites, became a feast, became a day of sadness and fasting for the Egyptians. “The thirteenth day of the month Thout [is] a very bad day. Thou shalt not do anything on this day. It is the day of the combat which Horus waged with Seth.”

The Hebrews counted (and still count) the beginning of the day from sunset; the Egyptians reckoned from sunrise. As the catastrophe took place at midnight, for the Israelites it was the fourteenth day of the (first) month; for the Egyptians it was the thirteenth day.

An earthquake caused by contact or collision with a comet must be felt simultaneously all around the world. An earthquake is a phenomenon that occurs from time to time; but an earthquake companying an impact in the cosmos would stand out and be recalled as a memorable date by survivors.

In the calendar of the Western Hemisphere, on the thirteenth day of the month, called olin, “motion” or “earthquake,” a new sun is said to have initiated another world age. The Aztecs, like the Egyptians, reckoned the day from sunrise.

Here we have, en passant, the answer to the open question concerning the origin of the superstition which regards the number 13, and especially the thirteenth day, as unlucky and inauspicious. It is still the belief of many superstitious persons, unchanged through thousands of years and even expressed in the same terms: “The thirteenth day is a very bad day. You shall not do anything on this day.”

I do not think that any record of this belief can be found dating from before the time of the Exodus. The Israelites did not share this superstition of the evil-working number thirteen (or fourteen).

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