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


LVIII. HOW AN IMPOSSIBILITY.

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To signify an impossibility, they represent A MAN'S FEET WALKING ON THE WATER; or when they would signify the same thing differently, they delineate A HEADLESS MAN WALKING. And since these are both impossibilities, they have with good reason selected them for this purpose.


Footnotes

79:1

Well known hieroglyphics not yet interpreted. The second is from the ceiling of the Ramesseion.


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