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Superstitions: Lucky #13 Mystery Cache

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SoulDancer: Ouch, eek it got burnt up in this area in a recent burn. Thanks for hunting it, hope you had fun on the trails!

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Hidden : 10/24/2007
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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THE COORDINATES ABOVE ARE NOT TO THE CACHE LOCATION!


YOU NEED TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE BELOW TO GET THE CACHE COORDINATES.


There have been so many puzzle caches here as of late, thought I would toss one more out there.


Some of these puzzle caches, have been utilizing fonts, mathematics, emoticons and metals, amongst a plethora of many other ways of determining the coordinates.


This is one of many caches that are being placed by Search4MeNow and Myself.



Unlucky 13 - Wikipedia excerpt

The stall numbers at the Santa Anita Park show that 13 is considered an unlucky number in horse racing.Thirteen is regarded as an unlucky number in many cultures. Fear of the number 13 is termed triskaidekaphobia. The thirteenth of a month is likewise ominous, particularly when it falls on a Friday in some English-speaking cultures, Russia and Germany (see Friday the 13th) or a Tuesday in the Greek and Spanish-speaking world.The number 13 also is very unlucky at hotels. In some hotels the 13th floor and the room number 13 are excluded.] Suggested explanations Thirteen may be considered a "bad" number simply because when a group of 13 objects or people is divided into two, three, four or six equal groups, there is always one leftover, or "unlucky", object or person. It was suggested by Charles A. Platt writing in 1925 that the reason 13 is considered unlucky is that a person can count from 1-12 with their 8 fingers, two thumbs and 2 feet, but not beyond that, so the number 13 is unknown, hence frightening, hence unlucky.[1] This idea discounts the use of toes or other body parts in counting. Some Christian traditions have it that at the Last Supper, Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table. According to another interpretation, the number 13 is unlucky because it is the number of full moons in a contemporary year, but two full moons in a single calendar month (mistakenly referred to as a blue moon in a magazine article of the 1940s) only happens about every 2.5 years. [2] Early nursery rhymes stated there were thirteen months in a year because of the natural moon cycle that was used to count the lunar year. In England, a calendar of thirteen months of 28 days each, plus one extra day, known as "a year and a day" was still in use up to Tudor times. The lunar year was the easiest to count for cultures before scientific methods existed to observe the movement of the earth around the sun, so it was associated with worship of the pagan Great Goddess[citation needed] for thousands of years, which may be another reason for 13 becoming a taboo number. Taboo often is misunderstood when only half of the totem and taboo relationship is recognized. Among religions having totem and taboo characteristics, that which is taboo on a regular basis may become quite sacred on special occasions. In Tarot decks, the 13th card of the Major Arcana is Death. While Death is rarely interpreted literally, it is possible that this furthered the perception of 13 as an unlucky number. Another hypothesis about the origin of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day is attributed to this being the day that the Knights Templar were slaughtered in a collaboration between King Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V finishing with the burning at the stake of Jacques De Molay. The legion with which Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon was the Legio XIII Gemina or the 13th legion. 13 is the 6th prime number. 6 is sometimes considered an unlucky number due to its association with 666.


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Guvf vf ybpngrq va Ina Cnggba Jbbqf Sberfg Cerfreir.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)