Vulgar words in Legends of the Gods - The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations (Page 1)

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ass x 6
make love x 1
            

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Do not make love, do not cry out to the Tesheru fiends, and cast no glances upon the noble ladies in their houses.

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The inhabitants of Busiris and Lycopolis never use trumpets, because their sounds resemble the braying of an ass.

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The cakes which are offered at the festivals during Paoni and Paopi are stamped with the figure of a fettered ass.

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The vignette shows us the deceased in the act of spearing a monster serpent which has fastened its jaws in the back of an ass.

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The Persian king Ochus was nicknamed the "Ass," which made him to say, "This ass shall dine upon your ox," and accordingly he slew Apis.

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Typhon is said to have escaped from Horus by a flight of seven days on an ass.]

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