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


LXVI. HOW A MONTH. 2

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To represent a month, they depict as before explained the figure of the MOON when it has attained the age of eight and twenty days of equal lengths, each day containing twenty-four

p. 85

hours, for during these it is apparent, and in the remaining two it is in a state of evanescence.


Footnotes

84:2 Treb. om. this chap.—See illustrations of Chap. 4.


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