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


XXVIII. HOW DUMBNESS.

To denote dumbness, they depict the number 1095, which is the number of days in the space of three years, the year consisting of 365 days, within which time, if a child does not speak, it chews that it has an impediment in its tongue.


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