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


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XLV. HOW THEY REPRESENT THE MOUTH.

To represent the mouth they depict a SERPENT, because the serpent is powerful in no other of its members except the mouth alone.


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