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

p. 109

XXXV. WHAT BY A SCORPION AND CROCODILE.

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When they would symbolise one enemy engaging with another equal to himself, they depict a SCORPION AND A CROCODILE. For these kill one another. But if they would symbolise one who is hostile to, and has slain another, they depict a CROCODILE or a SCORPION; and if he has slain him speedily, they depict a CROCODILE, but if slowly, a SCORPION, from its tardy motion.

Footnotes

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XXXV. This seems to hare some astronomical allusion. The Crocodile was one of the Vahans of the Sun, and the year began with Scorpio. It is not an uncommon hieroglyphic.

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