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The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo
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How Death
A NIGHT RAVEN signifies death; 2 for it suddenly pounces upon the young of the crows by night, as death suddenly overtakes men.
Footnotes
103:2 Qy. Erebus? The Hebrew word ???, EREB, signifies either p. 104 Erebus darkness, or the Nightraven, and it appears by Damascius, that the Sidonians substituted this bird as an emblem of Erebus.—An. Frag. p. 319.
