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


LXV. HOW A MAN WHO IS INJURED BY SELF-INFLICTIONS.

When they would symbolise a man injured by self inflictions, they delineate a BEAVER; for when pursued he tears out his own testicles, and casts them as spoil to his pursuers.


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