XXV. How They Denote an Imperfect Man
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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com
XXV. HOW THEY DENOTE AN IMPERFECT MAN.
To denote an imperfect man, they delineate a FROG, because it is generated from the slime of the river, whence
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it occasionally happens that it is seen with one part of a frog, and the remainder formed of slime, so that should the river fall, the animal would be left imperfect.
Footnotes
I. A common hieroglyphic, but not ascertained. In the British Museum is an inscription, in which Kneph is called "the king of Frogs."—Birch.II. Kneph.
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