XLIV. How They Intimate a Thing Unlawful, or an Abomination
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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com
XLIV. HOW THEY INTIMATE A THING UNLAWFUL, OK AN ABOMINATION.
To denote a thing unlawful, or an abomination, they delineate a FISH, because the feeding upon fish is considered in the sacred rites as abominable, and a pollution: for every fish is an animal that is a desolator [laxative as food?], and a devourer of its own species.
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Clemens states that the fish denotes hatred: and, according to Leemans, it is found in some inscriptions with that signfication.Ask PRATIBHA about this text
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