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Symbol 14:14

1407

14:14 · The mirror image, or inversion of 1408 symbolizes, like that ideogram, rotation. It stands first and foremost for a counterclockwise rotation and is therefore related to 1502 in Group 15.
    This sign appeared in the Euphrates-Tigris river valley cultures as early a around 2000 B.C., and 1471 is an Egyptian hieroglyph for, among other meanings, the number one hundred. The very similar 1472 was a sign protruding from the hats of gods depicted by hieroglyphs.
    In the earliest Chinese ideography 1407 was used with the probable meaning return or homecoming. The Hopi Indians seem to have given it the same meaning. See 1413, below in this group.
    The sign was used by the Phoenicians. It is also a pattern on Bronze Age jewelry found in Scania, Sweden, dating back about 1300 B.C.
    In the system of hobo signs in Britain it means this is a good house for work, i.e. a place that is worth returning to when one needs food and money.
    The sign 1450 is found painted on the walls of houses i Tibet (together with 2005a, and 0801), and has perhaps the meaning home, the place one returns to.
    It can also signify whirlpool or eddy on nautical charts.