The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo by Horapollo Niliacus George Boas

Author:Horapollo Niliacus, George Boas [Horapollo Niliacus, George Boas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780691000923
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1993-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

1. Sbordone, in his commentary on this hieroglyph, explains that the author has confused the word for a fourth of an aroura with the word for a “year.”

6.WHAT THEY MEAN BY A HAWK

When they wish to symbolize a god, or something sublime, or something lowly, or superiority, or victory, or Ares, or Aphrodite, they draw a hawk. A god, because the hawk is fecund or long-lived. And again, since it seems to exist as a symbol of the sun, beyond all other birds in the sharpness of its sight, because of the rays of its eyes. And for this reason the physicians use hawkweed for eye-trouble. And since the sun is the lord of sight, they draw him sometimes in the shape of a hawk. And sublime things, since the other birds, when they wish to fly upwards, proceed on a slant, it being impossible for them to rise directly. Only the hawk flies straight upwards. And lowliness, because the other birds cannot fly directly downwards, but always on a slant. But the hawk is borne directly downwards. And superiority, because they seem to be superior to all the other birds. And blood, because it is said that this bird drinks not water, but blood. And victory, because this bird seems to conquer every other. For when it is oppressed by a stronger beast, it betakes itself to the air and, turning on its back, prepares for battle with its talons extended. It is impossible for any other animal fighting against it to do this, and thus [its opponents] are driven to defeat.

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