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


p. 46

XXIII. HOW A MAN THAT HAS NOT TRAVELLED ABROAD.

To symbolize a man that has not travelled out of his own country, they delineate an ONOCEPHALUS [creature with an ass's head], because he is neither acquainted with history, nor conversant with foreign affairs.


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