semi-reverence

Updated: May 12, 2025

But it was no person who disturbed his solitude. Heraklas saw only the head of an ibis, called "Hac" or "Hib" by the Egyptians, and the lad, mindful of the honor due the bird as sacred to the god Thoth, the Egyptian deity of letters and of the moon, made a gesture of semi-reverence.

Mary E. (Mary Ellen) Bamford - Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East