Hyena

Hyena is a multi-colored stone, taken from the eye of the animal of the same name. When placed under the tongue, it enables the possessor to foretell future events. It cures gout and quartan ague. A.G.H.
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Their methods depending on a morass of the imagination and a chaos of conditions, their knowledge obtained with less decency than the hyena his food, I say they are less free and do not obtain the satisfaction of the meanest among animals.

It has a queer snoutlike nose and pointed ears, and may have been a conventional hyena. The Set monster lived in the sand storms and wandered about the world promulgating evil.

"This Cult of the Spectral Hyena persisted when all other forms of its God had perished, and certain magicians and dreamers have received intimations of its existence throughout the centuries. Dr.

This belief dates back into antiquity, and usually the most dangerous animal in the area - tigers in southern Asia and Japan, the hyena or leopard in Africa, the cat in England, ...

There are men and women who are morally of the highest class, who yet have been brought up to feed with the hyenas and the wolves of life, and have been taught that their necessary dietary was the corpse of a slaughtered animal.

Look at history and the present day earth: ideologically, and in consciousness, men seem to have become pygmies. To someone, men are hyenas; to some other, they may be humanoids very close to monkeys.

Venit Hyenas nivibus, Aestas armatur aristis,
Donat habens habitum, Rex regnum, Dives opum vim,
Invidus invidiam, legem Legista. Genusque
In specie legitur, velut interdum ex bove brutum.
Porgit agens notum, quod non claret actio per se; ...

See also: Anima, World, Spirit, Occult, Magic