XLVIII. How the Member of a Prolific Man
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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com
XLVIII. HOW THE MEMBER OF A PROLIFIC MAN.
To denote the member of a prolific man, they depict a
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GOAT, and not a bull: ille enim antequam annum attigerit, coire non solet: hic septem statim post ortum diebus congreditur, infœcundum et genituræ minime accommodum semen excernens. Prius tamen ac celerius cæteris animantibus coit.
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The Mendesian goat appears to have been considered by Herodotus as sacred to Khem. The goat as well as the bull was an emblem of Siva.Ask PRATIBHA about this text
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