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seems to have given rise to the theory, that the new life of the childwds actually formed from the blood thus retained. The beliefs that grewup in explanation of the placenta form part of the system of interpretationof these phenomena : for the placenta was regarded as a mass of clottedblood… … Fig. i8.—(a) The Archaic Egyptian slate palette of Narmer showing, perhaps, THE earliest DESIGN OF HaTHOR (aT THE UPPER CORNERS OK THE PALETTe) ASA WOMAN WITH COWS HORNS AND EARS (COMPARE FLINDERS PeTRIE, ThE RoYAL Tombs of the First Dynasty, Part I, igoo, Plate XXVII, Fig. 71). The PHARAOH is…
