Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: LXXXIII. How a Man Who is at First Deformed
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
When they would symbolise a man born deformed at first, but that has afterwards acquired his proper shape, they delineate a PREGNANT BEAR, for it brings forth (a mass of) thick and condensed blood, which is afterwards endued with life by being warmed between its thighs, and perfected by being licked with its tongue.