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| CIT_EGY_ISIS_HDT | ENT_EGY_ISIS | SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES | Herodotus, Histories | Book 2.41 | The clean males then of the ox kind, both full-grown animals and calves, are sacrificed by all the Egyptians; the females however they may not sacrifice, but these are sacred to Isis; for the figure of Isis is in the form of a woman with cow's horns, just as the Hellenes present Io in pictures, and all the Egyptians without distinction reverence cows far more than any other kind of cattle; for which reason neither man nor woman of Egyptian race would kiss | G. C. Macaulay | 1890 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 | primary-verbatim | Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). | 2026-06-17 | deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) | 1 | 0 |