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

CVI. HOW A MAN THE RULER OF HIS TRIBE.

When they would symbolise a man the ruler of his 

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tribe, they depict A CRAYFISH AND A POLYPUS; for he rules over the polypi, and holds the chief place among them.