Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: LXVI. How a Man Who Has Been Succeeded in His Property by a Son Whom He Hated

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

LXVI. HOW A MAN WHO HAS BEEN SUCCEEDED IN HIS PROPERTY BY A SON WHOM HE HATED.

When they would symbolise a man who has been succeeded

in his property by a son whom he hated, they depict AN APE WITH A YOUNG APE BEHIND IT, For the ape begets two young apes, one of which he loves extravagantly, and the other he hates: and the one which he loves he keeps before him and kills with fondling; but the one which he hates he keeps behind him and brings up.

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