Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: XCVIII. How a Man Skilled in Celestial Matters

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

XCVIII. HOW A MAN SKILLED IN CELESTIAL MATTERS.

When they would symbolise a man skilled in celestial matters, they depict A CRANE FLYING; 2 for she always flies very high, to inspect the clouds lest they send forth a storm, that she may remain in quiet. 3

Footnotes

145:2

The Ibis denotes Thoth, who was the Egyptian inventor of astronomy.

145:3 Treb. hæc enim ita alte advolat, ut nubes videat et tangat, "for it flies so high that it inspects and touches the clouds."

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