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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 366

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RAL SIZE) fact, the bug wouldstanding on its head. 8io SCARABS 811 to generation, reasoned that there was a i)rin-ciple of life that kept the world alive. Whether the nature-fakir or the philosopherput these two ideas together, or whether anaccident of language did it,—the beetle wascalled kheper,… … From tiods of the Egyptians, by E. A. T. W. Budge THE EGYPTI.\X (iOn KHEPER, WITH BEETLE HEAD it meant to be, to become, to endure. In thefanciful symbolism of later times, the god wassometimes represented with a mans body, butwith a beetle for a head. The sun, as the mostpowerful life-giver in the…

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