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As for the cow, it is covered with a purple robe, only the head and neck exposed, encrusted with a very thick layer of gold. Between the horns is the golden figure of the sun's orb.
As for the cow, it is covered with a purple robe, only the head and neck exposed, encrusted with a very thick layer of gold. Between the horns is the golden figure of the sun's orb.
[2] It does not stand, but kneels; it is as big as a live cow of great size. This image is carried out of the chamber once every year, whenever the
Egyptians mourn the god whose name I omit in speaking of these matters:
[3] then the cow is brought out into the light; for they say that before she died she asked her father,
Mycerinus, that she see the sun once a year
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Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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