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Shambling creatures with countless hands.
Many creatures with faces and breasts looking in different directions were born; some, offspring of oxen with faces of men, while others, again, arose as offspring of men with the heads of oxen, and creatures in whom the nature of women and men was mingled, furnished with sterile[[557]] parts. 5 R. P. 173 b.
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Come now, hear how the Fire as it was separated caused the night-born shoots of men and tearful women to arise; for my tale is not off the point nor uninformed. Whole-natured forms first arose from the earth, having a portion both of water and fire.[[558]] These did the fire, desirous of 5 reaching its like, send up, showing as yet neither the charming form of women’s limbs, nor yet the voice and parts that are proper to men. R. P. 173 c.
... But the substance of (the child’s) limbs is divided between them, part of it in men’s and part in women’s (body).
And upon him came desire reminding him through sight.