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


XXV. HOW DEATH.

A NIGHT RAVEN signifies death; 2 for it suddenly pounces

p. 104

upon the young of the crows by night, as death suddenly overtakes men.


Footnotes

103:2 Qy. Erebus? The Hebrew word ‏ערב‎, EREB, signifies either p. 104 Erebus darkness, or the Nightraven, and it appears by Damascius, that the Sidonians substituted this bird as an emblem of Erebus.—An. Frag. p. 319.


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