A birthday for many women is a festive occasion to once again please themselves beloved and have fun in the circle of relatives and friends. However, there is a date that is not customary to celebrate. According to popular beliefs, it is better not to celebrate the fortieth anniversary or to do it as quietly and modestly as possible. Let's try to figure out how true this statement is and whether a woman can celebrate 40 years.
Scary truth or stupid fiction
The ban on the celebration of their fortieth anniversary has been going on for a long time, sometimes people associated this with signs, more often with religious references.
Ancient superstitions are based on the mystical analogies of the number forty with death and various misfortunes.
Pythagoras also linked the four to unpleasant events, and zero, in his opinion, expressed emptiness. The followers of the scientist believed that the magnificent celebration of the fortieth anniversary will lead to misfortune and even death of a person.
In Asia, too, do not favor the number forty and consider it a harbinger of misfortunes and disasters. In addition, the ancient divination on the Tarot cards also connects the four with death.
The inhabitants of the Far East have a fear of fortieth anniversary, this is due to their dislike of the number four. An interesting fact: in Japan, the symbol denoting the number four is excluded. In many buildings there is no 4th floor (after 3 goes immediately 5), as well as 13th floor, because 1 and 3 in total gives 4.
Less frightening and more logical is the rejection of forty years from a religious point of view. In the Bible, the number forty marks: the global flood lasted forty days; Moses also drove his followers forty days through the hot desert; Jesus Christ rose on the fortieth day after death; The Lord was also subjected to many temptations for forty days.
In addition, according to the Orthodox faith, the deceased is buried for forty days and ordered him a special service in the church - Sorokoust for repose.
