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


XXX. HOW ANCIENT DESCENT.

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To denote ancient descent they depict a BUNDLE OF PAPYRUS, and by this they intimate the primeval food; for no one can find the beginning of food or generation.


Footnotes

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A roll of papyrus.


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