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The rendering into English of the account of 62 teratologic cases
in the human subject with the prophetic meanings attached to them
by Chaldean diviners, after the translation of Opport, is given
as follows by Ballantyne, some of the words being
untranslatable:--
"When a woman gives birth to an infant--
(1) that has the ears of a lion, there will be a powerful king in
the country;
(2) that wants the right ear, the days of the master (king) will
be prolonged (reach old age);
(3) that wants both ears, there will be mourning in the country,
and the country will be lessened (diminished);
(4) whose right ear is small, the house of the man (in whose
house the birth took place) will be destroyed;
(5) whose ears are both small, the house of the man will be built
of bricks;
(6) whose right ear is mudissu tehaat (monstrous), there will be
an androgyne in the house of the new-born
(7) whose ears are both mudissu (deformed), the country will
perish and the enemy rejoice;
(8) whose right ear is round, there will be an androgyne in the
house of the new-born;
(9) whose right ear has a wound below, and tur re ut of the man,
the house will be estroyed;
(10) that has two ears on the right side and none on the left,
the gods will bring about a stable reign, the country will
flourish, and it will be a land of repose;
(11) whose ears are both closed, sa a au;
(12) that has a bird's beak, the country will be peaceful;
(13) that has no mouth, the mistress of the house will die;
(14) that has no right nostril, the people of the world will be
injured;
(15) whose nostrils are absent, the country will be in
affliction, and the house of the man will be ruined;
(16) whose jaws are absent, the days of the master (king) will be
prolonged, but the house (where the infant is born) will be
ruined.
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