The Dark Side of the Net
There is a darkness inside us. This site is a doorway to the dark... if what you find passing through here disturbs you, there is no need to return. If you can resist...
Sacred Texts
Egypt
Index
Previous
Next
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at DarkSideOfTheNet.com
XLIV. HOW THEY INTIMATE A THING UNLAWFUL, OK AN ABOMINATION.
1
To denote a thing unlawful, or an abomination, they delineate a FISH, because the feeding upon fish is considered in the sacred rites as abominable, and a pollution: for every fish is an animal that is a desolator [laxative as food?], and a devourer of its own species.
Footnotes
65:1
Clemens states that the fish denotes hatred: and, according to Leemans, it is found in some inscriptions with that signfication.
Next: XLV. How They Represent the Mouth