Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: LX. How They Denote Children Plotting Against Their Mothers
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
When they would denote children plotting against their mothers, they delineate a VIPER; for the viper is not
brought forth in the [usual manner?], but disengages itself by gnawing through the belly of its mother.