C. How a Man Who is Tardy in Moving With His Feet

Reading tools

Contents

Display

Soundscape

Focus mode

Listen

Offline

Save

Collection

1 min read 107 wordsCompare

Sacred Texts Egypt Buy this Book at Amazon.com

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

p. 147

C. HOW A MAN WHO IS TARDY IN MOVING WITH HIS FEET.

When they would symbolise a man who is tardy in moving with his feet, they delineate A CAMEL ¹; for this is the only animal which bends the thigh, whence it is called κάμηλος ², a camel.

Footnotes

147:1

It is a singular fact, that in a country like Egypt, where Camels must have been abundant, there is no known instance of a Camel among the existing sculptures, hieroglyphics, or paintings. Bonomi.

147:2 κάμηρος, Al.

Ask PRATIBHA about this text

Answers quote this scripture directly and show their sources.

Reflect on this passage

Only you can see these notes. They stay on this device.