XXXI. What They Denote by Depicting a Swallow
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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com
p. 107
XXXI. WHAT THEY DENOTE BY DEPICTING A SWALLOW.
When they would signify that the whole of a parent's substance has been left to the sons, they depict a SWALLOW. For she rolls herself in the mud, and builds a nest for her young, when she is herself about to die.
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