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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com


XCIV. HOW A MAN THAT GUARDS HIMSELF FROM THE PLOTS OF HIS ENEMIES.

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When they would symbolise a man that guards himself from the plots of his enemies, they depict A CRANE ON THE WATCH; for these birds guard themselves by watching in turns during the whole night.


Footnotes

143:1

Thoth, who was always considered as a guardian of the land.


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