Pigeon [Hieroglyphically]

intimates continency, chastity, mutual and conjugal love; because this bird is chaste in its embraces, and extreme loving to each other. Therefore to express the transports of two amorous persons, the Egyptian priests put two pigeons kissing one another; and they also painted a pigeon with its rump lifted up to signify an excellent disposition, not subject to be inflamed with choler; also a soul of a meek temper; because naturalists do observe that this bird has no choler.