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Number 14 is the number of forgetfullness.
The moon is fourteen days in waxing (growing larger) before we can observe the beautiful full moon. The moon is also fourteen days in waning.
In China the number fourteen is an unlucky number. It is pronounced "one four" which sounds like "want to die".
A sonnet is a fourteen line poem. A sonnet has a strick rhyme structure. Each line contains ten syllables. William Shakespear wrote 154 sonnets.
A cuboctahedron has fourteen sides. It has six squares and eight triangles.
Fourteen is the atomic number of silicon.
A stone (British unit of weight) is equivalent to fourteen pounds.
Apollo 14 was the third manned mission to land on the moon. The Lunar landing of Apollo 14 was February 5, 1971. It was on this mission Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the moon.
In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was murdered by his brother, Seth. Seth cut the body of Osiris into fourteen parts. Osiris' wife, Isis, was able to locate the fourteen body parts and give her husband a decent funeral.
Osiris eventually became the god of the Underworld. The number fourteen has on the basis of this story been associated with death and resurrection.
In the picture by Gospodar Svemira, we can see that Nut ( the Sky goddess) is supported by her father Shu ( air god). Geb, Nut's husband, is the Earth and he is looking at his two sons Osiris (who is naked) and Seth (who is evil).
In France July 14, is the French national holiday. It is known as "Bastille Day". It is the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789.
Valentines Day is celebrated on February 14 every year. It is a day for romanse and love. Sending cards, flowers and candy is quite common in the Western world.
 The 14th Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the people of Tibet, who believe he is the reincarnation of his predecessors.
The 14th Dalai Lama was proclaimed to be the rebirth of the 13th Dalai Lama when he was two years old. He was the fifth of sixteen children of a farming family. He was born July 6, 1935. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 and has received over a hundred rewards.
The Fourteen Stations of the Cross are stations for meditation used by many Catholics in the Roman Catholic Church. The stations consists of fourteen crosses and may also have pictures. The believers go from one station to the next saying prayers. These are the fourteen stations approved by Pope Benedict XVI:
| 1. Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane |
| 2. Jesus betrayed by Judas and arrested |
| 3. Jesus condemned by the Sanhedrin |
| 4. Jesus denied by Peter |
| 5. Jesus is judged by Pilate |
| 6. Jesus is scourged and crowned with thorns |
| 7. Jesus takes up His cross |
| 8. Jesus is helped by Simon to carry His cross |
| 9. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem |
| 10. Jesus is crucified |
| 11. Jesus promises His kingdom to the repentant thief |
| 12. Jesus entrusts Mary and John to each other |
| 13. Jesus dies on the cross |
| 14. Jesus is laid in the tomb |
In the Bible there are fourteen generations from Abraham to David.
The Fourteen Holy Helpers is a group of Catholic saints invocted during the Black Plague in Europe. The Fourteen Holy helpers have remained sturdy in Germany.
| 1. St. Achatius |
Against headache |
| 2. St. Barbara |
Against fever and sudden death |
| 3. St. Blaise |
Against illness of the throat |
| 4. St. Catherine of Alexandria |
Against sudden death |
| 5. St. Christopher |
Against plagues |
| 6. St. Cyriacus |
Against temptation on the death bed |
| 7. St. Denis |
Against headache |
| 8. St. Erasmus |
Against intestinal ailments |
| 9. St. Eustachius |
Against family trouble |
| 10. St. George |
For protection of domestic animals |
| 11. St. Giles |
Against plague and for a good confession |
| 12. St. Margaret of Antioch |
For a safe childbirth |
| 13. St. Pantaleon |
For physicians |
| 14. St. Vitus |
Against epilepsy |
In Engelbert Humperdinck's opera "Hansel and Gretel", there is the prayer of the lost children: "The Fourteen Angles":
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When at night I go to sleep,
fourteen angles watch do keep,
two my head are guarding,
two my feet are guiding;
two apon my right hand,
Two upon my left hand.
Two who wamly cover,
two who o'er me hover,
two to whom 'tis given
to guide my steps to heaven.
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In the Tarot number fourteen is the card of the Temperance.
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