XXV. How They Denote an Imperfect Man

XXV. How They Denote an Imperfect Man

XXV. HOW THEY DENOTE AN IMPERFECT MAN.

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To denote an imperfect man, they delineate a FROG, because it is generated from the slime of the river, whence

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it occasionally happens that it is seen with one part of a frog, and the remainder formed of slime, so that should the river fall, the animal would be left imperfect.


Footnotes

  1. 47:1

    I. A common hieroglyphic, but not ascertained. In the British Museum is an inscription, in which Kneph is called "the king of Frogs."—Birch.

    II. Kneph.

    II. Kneph.

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