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


LXXII. HOW A MAN WHO PASSES FEARLESSLY THROUGH THE EVILS WHICH ASSAIL HIM.

When they would denote a man who passes fearlessly through the evils which assail him, even until death, they delineate the SKIN OF AN HYÆNA; 1 for if a man gird this skin about himself, and pass

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through any of his enemies, he shall be injured by none of them, but passes through fearlessly.


Footnotes

130:1 The Arabs eat the flesh of this animal to free themselves from some particular illness.


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