{"collection":"egy","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/egy/hh/hh046.htm","path":"egy/hh/hh046.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/egy/hh/hh046.htm","text":"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]\nTo denote a thing unlawful, or an abomination, they delineate a FISH, because the feeding upon fish is considered in the sacred rites as abominable, and a pollution: for every fish is an animal that is a desolator [laxative as food?], and a devourer of its own species.","title":"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book I: XLIV. How They Intimate a Thing Unlawful, or an Abomination","type":"page"}