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Keywords:
Sacred, holy, bird
Description of this motif: The Ibis bird (Ibis aethiopica) was a sacred bird in ancient Egypt. It was considered immortal, and dead ibises were embalmed. The Egyptian god Thoth, god of wisdom and writing, had the head of an ibis.
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- 1 The Marsh King's Daughter (1858)
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