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


XLI. WHAT THEY INTIMATE BY POURTRAYING A BLIND BEETLE.

When they would symbolise a man who has caught a fever from a stroke of the sun, and died in consequence, they portray a BLIND BEETLE; for this creature dies after it has been blinded by the sun.


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