Consecutive double yolks in Turkey on Easter Sunday

What to make of the succession of seven double-yolked eggs out of a total of ten I broke open when making scrambled eggs on Easter Sunday in Turkey twenty years ago? Turkey is sometimes referred to as the “Other Holy Land” because of the seven churches of Asia Minor that are mentioned in the New Testament Book of Revelation. Was that supposed to be significant to me an agnostic? “In England, a man went to the store and bought a package of six eggs. He cracked the first one open and found a double yolk. Then he cracked open the second, two yolks in that one as well. It turns out all six eggs were like that. The chances of that happening: about one in a trillion. As unlikely as winning the lottery, the man said, before adding the lottery would be better, obviously. Still, what a way to beat the odds with eggs?” “[T]here is a theorem in science: if it happens, it must be possible,” remarked Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at UC, Berkeley: “The best statistical test of an observation is to see if it has happened naturally in the past.” On Easter Sunday morning of 1995 I prepared breakfast; my wife’s parents were visiting with us in Ankara, Turkey, for a few weeks, so I’d bought 20 eggs for the weekend to make scrambled eggs for morning repasts for the four of us. The previous day I’d fixed scrambled eggs from ten eggs without incident. All of the eggs I’d purchased from the same shop early Saturday morning. But when I cracked open the first egg on Sunday, it was a double yolk. So were the second, third, & fourth. Four in a row! Though I’ve been breaking eggs for breakfasts for decades, I’ve rarely encountered a double yolk. “Another double yolk!” I shouted out to the other three in the room repeatedly, exuberantly with incredulity, as each duple orangey spheroidal mass plopped into the bowl. The fifth, disappointingly, had a single yolk, but the sixth also had a twin yolk. By the time I’d cracked open all ten eggs, one more double yolk appeared, making 17 yolks from ten eggs. Here’s what I wrote about the incident 18½ years ago. Saturday morning I went out at 7:20 to buy eggs for breakfast. On the weekends I usually prepare scrambled eggs, and with Nora’s folks here I needed ten for each breakfast plus one for Monday’s meatloaf. Ordinarily the little shops for comestibles are open by or soon after seven. But when I got down to the market in our complex, it was still closed. So I walked down the street to another shop where I actually get better buys. Here two men stood outside, one a young fellow who works in the shop but who didn’t have the key to unlock the door. I waited five minutes before continuing down the street to the market where we usually purchase fruit and vegetables. This too was still shut up. However, just a few doors down from it was another shop that was open. I went in and requested twenty-one eggs. The gray-haired shopkeeper took the brown eggs (brown eggs are the norm) all from the same flat, putting ten into one plastic bag and eleven in another. I handed him the money (63,000 TL) and took the eggs. By the time I got back, at least half an hour after my departure, Nora was worried about me. (There’s been another security alert to beware of expected activity from the terrorist group Dev Sol.) I took the bag of ten eggs, washed them, and broke them into a bowl for the breakfast. Nothing out of the ordinary. But this morning when I began breaking eggs into the bowl for another scrambled-egg breakfast, the first egg produced a double yolk. I’ve been making scrambled eggs for several years, and I’ve rarely seen a double-yolked egg. This was my first double-yolk from a Turkish hen. The next egg also broke open with a double yolk. The third and fourth the same. Four in a row, and none yesterday! Yet all came from the same flat of eggs. The fifth, almost white, was a single yolk. But the sixth was another double. And by the end still one more double fell out, making seventeen yolks from ten eggs. After meditating on this implausible phenomenon, I allowed my thoughts to drift into the metaphysical. Perhaps this was a presignification, maybe an approximation of a miracle. Today is Easter for which the egg is a significant symbol, a token of rebirth and renewal. The seven double eggs might refer to the seven churches of Revelation, most of which were located in Anatolia. (“What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia.” – Revelations 1:11) Seven was a sacred number among the Hebrews, and its mystical character is traceable back into antiquity with many other ancient peoples. The moon passes through a different phase every seven days, which may have something to do with our having a week of seven days. God blessed the seventh day. The seventh day was the Sabbath; often we think of Sunday as the seventh day. Further, Christ spoke Seven Words (read in Scripture as seven utterances) from the cross, beginning with “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” to “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” There were seven double yolks in the bowl (“And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks.” – Revelations 1:12) and three single yolks. The three single yolks made a trinity. One of the yolks as I began to beat the eggs expelled considerable blood, indicating that it had been fertilized. Symbolic of Christ’s blood? At the table as usual I broke hardcrusted bread (ekmek) and ate my eggs. An enigma wrapped up in an omelet? A message sealed with seven double egg yolks. Allow me as well an examination of the date, April 16th, 1995: April being the fourth month & 16 being 4 squared; the 16th followed US Federal Income Tax filing day on the 15th which came two weeks, a double seven, after April Fools Day. Any significance there? Next look closely at 1995, in which five times 19 is 95. Since I was in Ankara, Turkey, at the time, 19 might be noteworthy since it is a sacred number in Islamic tradition, but Turkey at the time was a nation under secular government. But delving deeper in to 1995, we can see its prime factorization as 1 x 3 x 5 x 7 x 19. Once again 19 asserts itself along with 7, a sacred number in many religions (recall the Jewish menorah), as well as the 3, the Trinity, & 1, the uniquely Holy Only. But what about 5? According to numerology sites, 5 is “the most dynamic and energetic of all the single-digit numbers … extremely independent in mind and soul,” having “a highly progressive mindset.” In other words, 5 is a prime representative of secular & humanistic thought. Further: “According to the Bible, it is the symbol of the Man-God by the five wounds of the Christ on cross (for this reason, it is also considered as the number of the grace). But it is also associated to the man in general (2 + 3) having an unstable character of duality, 2, in spite of his divinity, 3. The 5 is also found on the human body: the five fingers of the hand and feet, the five senses (touch, taste, sense of smell, hearing and the sight), the five members (two arms, two legs and the head, the bust being the center), the five bones forming the metacarpus, the metatarse and the brain-pan, etc.” Thus, 1995 is very suggestive of a unity of the three related faiths of Judaism, Christianity, & Islam along with humanism. Or so one might offer the conjecture. Further, nineteen & three both figure into the Standard Model of particle physics in which there are Heinz 57 ingredients (19 x 3) of distinct quantum fields, corresponding to the electron, the neutrino, the photon, various quarks, &c; also the 5 & 7 of 57 sum to 12. Before anyone hastily jumps to conclusions, I am an agnostic.