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


LXIII. HOW A KING WHO GOVERNS A PART OF THE WORLD.

When they would symbolize a king who governs not all but a part of the world, they depict HALF A SERPENT. For by this creature they denote a king, and by half of it, that he is not king over all the world.


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