XXV. How Death
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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com
XXV. HOW DEATH.
A NIGHT RAVEN signifies death; 2 for it suddenly pounces
p. 104
upon the young of the crows by night, as death suddenly overtakes men.
Footnotes
103:2 Qy. Erebus? The Hebrew word ערב, EREB, signifies either p. 104 Erebus darkness, or the Nightraven, and it appears by Damascius, that the Sidonians substituted this bird as an emblem of Erebus.—An. Frag. p. 319.
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