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

p. 112

XL. HOW THEY DENOTE A MAN WHO LIVES WITH HIS WIFE.

When they would symbolise a man living in intercourse with his own wife, they depict TWO CROWS; for these birds cohabit with one another in the same manner as does a man by nature.