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The Asp is a Species of Cobra de Capello. Used by the 

 Hmcee. Its Size. Its Food - - - - 241 



Torpid in Winter. Cleopatra's Asp. Asp Mummies. The 

 House Snake . _ . . . 242 



The Snake with its Tail in its Mouth. Snake, in mysterious 

 Subjects. Asp kept in Temples. Aphophis and Pytho 243 



Snake with the Jews and Moslems. Venerated by some. 

 In a Circle, an Emblem of the World. (When with its 

 Tail in its Mouth, had probably this Meaning, rather 

 than Eternity.) Both an Enemy of the Gods, and treated 

 with Veneration. Hindoo Caliya - _ - 244 



Gods and others said to have freed the World from Snakes. 

 Serpent of Hereedee. Cerastes said to have been 

 sacred at Thebes - - . . _ 245 



Common in Upper Egypt. Their Horns. Bury themselves 

 in the Sand. Venomous. Deception of the modern 

 Snake-catchers, (note f) - - - - 246 



Mummied. Frog. Type of incipient Life. Emblem of 

 Pthah. Embalmed. Elian's Shower of Frogs on his 

 Way to DicEsarohia {Hod. VnzznoW.'), (note*) - 247 



Fabulous Reptiles. Fish. Oxyrhinchus. This, the 

 Phagrus and Lepidotus, sacred in Parts of Egypt. 

 Scruples of the Oxyrhinchites respecting their Fish - 248 



Reason of their abstaining from eating these Fish. Not a 

 Dainty, as shewn by Homer. Oxyrhinchus, the Mizdeh, 

 a Mormyrus. Its pointed Nose ... 249 



Often figured in the Sculptures. Bronzes of it. Repre- 

 sented at the Oasis. The Emblem of Athor - - 250 



The Phagrus or Eel. Sacred at Syene and Phagrorio- 

 polis. Reason of its Worship. The Lepidotus, a scaly 

 Fish - - - - - - 251 



Its Name at the present Day. Bronzes - - 252 



Most probably the Binny, or Cyprinus Lepidotus. Latus 

 and MiEOTES. The Karmoot - _ . 253 



The Phagrus and Maeotes probably the same Fish. Em- 

 balmed Fish. Scorpion. Emblem of Selk. Scorpions 

 of Coptos -..._. 254 



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