{"collection":"egy","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/egy/hh/hh003.htm","path":"egy/hh/hh003.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/egy/hh/hh003.htm","text":"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]\nTo denote Eternity 2 they depict the SUN and MOON, because their elements are eternal. But when they would represent Eternity 2 differently,\nthey delineate a SERPENT with its tail covered by the rest of its body: the Egyptians call this Ouraius, 1 which in the Greek language signifies Basilisk: 2 And they place golden figures of it round the Gods. The Egyptians say that Eternity is represented by this animal; because of the three existing species of serpents, the others are mortal, but this alone is immortal; and 3 because it destroys any other animal by merely breathing upon 4 it even without biting. And hence, inasmuch as it thus appears to have power over life and death, they place it upon the head of the Gods.\nII. Head of a God with the Basilisk upon it. The basilisk often passes over the head, and is occasionally found passing round it.\nIII. Denotes Immortality.\u2014Sharpe, 186, 191.\n5:2 Eternal power?\u2014a definite period?\u2014an age?\n6:1 \u039f\u03a5\u03a1\u039f, in Coptic, signifies a king. Jab. Champ. Tat.\u2014Morell suggests \u039f\u1f50\u03b2\u03b1\u1fd6\u03bf\u03c2, as a derivative from \u05d0\u05d5\u05d1, Ob, a serpent.\n6:2 The Cobra Capella.\u2014Hasselquist is in error when he says that the Arabs call this serpent Haje. They call it Nasher: and Haiyeh or Hayyeh is a general name for a serpent.\n6:4 Kircher suggests, \"By the hiss.\"\u2014See also Sanchoniatho Eus. Pr. Ev. lib. i. c. 10.\n6:3 Qy. insert\" Power?\"","title":"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book I: I. How They Denote Eternity","type":"page"}