Vulgar words in History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) (Page 1)
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[Illustration: 41.jpg SHE-ASS AND HER FOAL.]
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In one very ancient form of the Egyptian legend, the sun is represented by a wild ass running round the world along the sides of the mountains that uphold the sky, and the serpent which attacks it is called _Haiû_.
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* The colour of his hair was compared with that of a red- haired ass, and on that account the ass was sacred to him.
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Sît was the first to plead, and he maintained that Horus was not the son of Osiris, but a bastard, whom Isis haô conceived after the death of her husband.