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


XLVI. HOW A MAN WHO CURES HIMSELF BY AN ORACLE.

When they would symbolize a man who cures himself by an oracle, they delineate a WOOD PIGEON CARRYING A BRANCH OF LAUREL; for this bird when sick deposits a branch of laurel in its nest, and recovers.


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