Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: LXV. How a Man who is Injured by Self-Inflictions
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
When they would symbolise a man injured by self inflictions, they delineate a BEAVER; for when pursued he tears out his own testicles, and casts them as spoil to his pursuers.