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Numbers as religious symbols
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Negative Symbols and Meanings in Western Culture
There are examples where numbers are associated with religious (or otherwise) symbols and meanings, such as 666 with Lucifer or the Devil in certain Christian denominations. Some numbers like 88 refer may to religious symbols as such, if one allows Nazi Germanism (a paganistic religion created under Hitler's regime, based on Sun worship) to be classified as a religion, which equates to 'Heil Hitler', 'H' being the eighth letter in the German alphabet, thus H.H., as in modern Germany, there is a taboo on saying any phrase similar to that, and is if stated in public, for instance, 'sieg heil' or an ancient germanic deriven phrase equating to 'victory' used by the Nazis during marches and rallies, can now, if said in German public, may end up with a three-year jail sentence. In Western culture, number 13 is generally associated with bad luck, or a friday of a month, which is the 13th day in it also. This goes back to Medieval Christian times, where the Knights Templars, rich from 'Crusades' and the like, and their famous banking system, had begun to draw the attention of jealousy, that of the French crown in particular, who had many 'templars' burnt at the stake, charged with heresy on the date of 'Friday, the 13th', thus interpreted as 'unlucky' by some in western society up to the present day, with the date intermingled with some 'Christian' culture. The number 9 has been associated with LaVeyan Satanism, according to Anton LaVey in his book, The Satanic Rituals.
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