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


p. 97

IX. HOW THE LOINS OF A MAN.

When we would denote the loins or the constitution of a man we depict the BACKBONE; for some hold that the seed proceeds from thence.


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