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


XXXII. WHAT BY A BLACK DOVE.

When they would symbolise a woman who remains a widow till death, they depict a BLACK DOVE; for this bird has no connexion with another mate from the time that it is widowed.


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