{"collection":"egy","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/egy/hh/hh036.htm","path":"egy/hh/hh036.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/egy/hh/hh036.htm","text":"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]\nWhen they would denote a soul continuing a long time here, 2 or an inundation, they depict the PH\u0152NIX the bird: 3 and they denote the soul by it, because this is the longest lived of all creatures in the world; and an inundation, because the Ph\u0153nix is a symbol of the sun, than which nothing is greater in the universe. For the sun passes over all and\nscrutinises all, hence he is called . . . . . Polys 1 (much).\n54:2 Qy. 'When they would denote the soul, or an expiring cycle of time, or an inundation?' Of the two first the Ph\u0153nix was certainly a symbol, and possibly of the last, on account of its periodical return.\n54:3 The Ph\u0153nix the Bird, to distinguish it from the Ph\u0153nix the Palm branch.\u2014See Ch. 7.\n55:1 Phanes? Apollo.","title":"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book I: XXXIV. How a Soul Continuing a Long Time Here","type":"page"}