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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com


p. 129

LXIX. HOW A MAN OVERCOME BY HIS INFERIORS.

When they would symbolise a man overcome by his inferiors, they depict TWO SKINS, one of an HYÆNA, 1 and the other of a PANTHER; for if these two skins be placed together, the panther's shoots its hair, but the other does not.


Footnotes

129:1 Qy. A water skin.


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