LVIII. How an Impossibility

LVIII. How an Impossibility

LVIII. HOW AN IMPOSSIBILITY.

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To signify an impossibility, they represent A MAN'S FEET WALKING ON THE WATER; or when they would signify the same thing differently, they delineate A HEADLESS MAN WALKING. And since these are both impossibilities, they have with good reason selected them for this purpose.


Footnotes

  1. 79:1

    Well known hieroglyphics not yet interpreted. The second is from the ceiling of the Ramesseion.

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