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The Egyptian Book of the dead

Note note 5 — Chapter XXXIX

P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation

935. Horns or barbed hooks, , or . The horns here spoken of, as possessed by a viper, are those of the deadly Cerastes, which are spines projecting from the arched eye-brows of the creature. See picture in Long’s Egyptian Antiquities of British Museum, II, p. 316, copied from the great French work.

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