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Grecian myth of the Hesperidean garden and the fire-breathing 
dragons which guarded it (fig. 34). With respect to the urseus. 
Fig. 33. The comers of Paradise guarded by fire-breathing ursei ; further on, but not 
shown in the plate, are the bodies of the just awaiting in the cypress shades their 
ultimate revivification. (Sar. Oimen.) 
one circumstance deserves notice ; it is always represented in 
the feminine form, and is used as a symbol of fecundity. Hence 
Fig, 34, The serpent guarding the apple-tree of the Hesperides. From a Greek vase 
in the British Museum. (Sharpe. ) 
all the goddesses of Egypt were adorned with, and represented 
by, ursei ; and not unfrequently the snake is alone figured, with 
the name of the goddess written in hieroglyphics above (fig. 35). 
This is notably the case in the tablets from the Belmore col- 
lection in the British Museum (see infra, §11, first moiety), and 
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