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


CIV. HOW A MAN WHO SAVES MANY IN THE SEA.

When they would symbolise a man who saves many in the sea, they depict the TORPEDO FISH; for this, when it perceives a number of fishes unable to swim, draws them to itself and preserves them.


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