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


LXXXVIII. HOW A MAN THAT AT IS PROVIDING HIS OWN TOMB.

When they would symbolise a man that is providing 

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his own tomb, they depict an ELEPHANT 1 BURYING ITS OWN TEETH; for when his teeth fall out, he takes them up and buries them.


Footnotes

140:1 Treb. cervum.


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