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 Number Tattoos - Numbers can make for fascinating tattoo designs. Who - in a moment
of truth - wouldn't confess to having a personal number they
consider "Lucky". And does anyone on a sports team want Jersey
Number 13, or to work on the thirteenth floor of an office tower? In
fact, the superstition against the number thirteen is so strong that
most buildings "skip" the thirteenth floor as if didn't even exist!
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Lovers of rituals and ceremony, going back thousands of years,
believe in a direct link between man and God through the properties
of certain numbers. Kabbalists, Masons, and Hindus use the 'Sacred
3'. Multiples of it create the 'Mysterious 9' in rituals performed
to acquire divine attributes. These numbers were said to be
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Johnny Depp has the number 3 tattooed on his left hand, on the web
of his hand between his thumb and his forefinger. David Beckham has
his lucky number V11 in Roman numerals.
Since men first learned how to count, numbers and destiny have
always gone hand in hand.
 The
old favourite 7 is still considered to be a perfect number in
cultures springing from ancient Greece, while 8 is the great
favourite for luck, power, and material wealth in cultures
originating in China.
Our fascination with numbers begins in the cradle - remember
counting fingers and toes? Then came the days of the week, the
months in the year, the planets, the stars and onwards to infinity!
 Wherever
you come from, we can all agree about fingers and toes, but just
about everything else is open for debate. Take the number '13' --
the unlucky number. In the sporting world, it's likely to be banned
from racing cars, stable doors, and athletes' shirts. In Medieval
times, witches in Europe were believed to have supernatural powers
associated with the cycles of the moon - yes, there are 13 in one
year. But in many religions, '13' has positive associations --
re-birth in Christianity, mercy in Judaism, and remembrance of God
in Sikhism.
Here's a quick check list for numbers of significance, depending on
which part of the planet you're standing on. And when thinking about
the significance of numbers, don't forget to think about the number
of points in a star, or all the different variations of the cross
and other geometric forms.
1 -- unity
2 -- intuition
3 -- divinity
4 -- earth and man
5 -- God's favour
6 -- man's number; not quite seven, so not quite perfect!
7 -- perfection and abundance
8 -- eternal cycles, material wealth
9 -- symbolizes completeness
10 -- symbolizes fulfillment
And each of us, besides our personal "Lucky" number, has large
numbers of numbers that we consider so important that we can't
forget them. We are surrounded by numbers. The birthdays and
anniversaries of loved ones, the dates of the dearly departed, and
the phone number of the hottie you met in the bar last night. All of
those numbers might make it into a tattoo design with the possible
exception of the last.
 Just
when you think you've got it all sorted out, numbers can throw you
for a loop! The Beastly 666, for example, considered to be
devil-friendly, but now tamed by new research that suggests that
certain crucial bits of information set down in ancient manuscripts
were overlooked. You now might want to beware of '616'.
See also: Lucky Tattoo Index
Number tattoo designs by some of the
world's top tattoo artists & illustrators.
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