Thoth

God of Wisdom
the Egyptian god Thoth, in one of his form as an ibis-headed man
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Thoth was considered one of the more important deities of the Egyptian pantheon. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon ; these animals were sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat .

His chief shrine was located in the city of Khemennu, later renamed Hermopolis by the Greeks (in reference to him through the Hellenic Greeks' interpretation that he was the same as their god Hermes) and Eshmûnên in the Coptic rendering. In that city, he led the local pantheon of the region known as the Ogdoad , and its eight principal deities. He also had numerous shrines within the cities of Abydos , Hesert, Urit, Per -Ab, Rekhui, Ta-ur, Sep, Hat, Pselket, Talmsis, Antcha-Mutet, Bah, Amen-heri-ab, and Ta-kens.

He was often considered as the heart, which, according to the ancient Egyptians, is the seat of intelligence or the mind, and tongue of the sun god Ra ; as well as the means by which Ra's will was translated into speech . He had also been related to the Logos of Plato and the mind of God. (see The All). In the Egyptian mythology, he has played many vital and prominent roles in maintaining the universe, including being one of the two deities (the other being Ma'at) who stood on either side of Ra's boat. Later in ancient Egyptian history, Thoth became heavily associated with the arbitration of godly disputes, the arts of magic , the system of writing , the development of science , and the judgment of the dead. [See: Weighing of the Heart]

God of wisdom
Major cult center Symbol Parents Consort
Hermopolis the moon disk,
the papyrus scroll 		none (self-created),
alternatively Ra and Hathor, Set 		Seshat or Ma'at

Etymology

Common names for Thoth [10]
in hieroglyphs
G26 t
Z4
, or
d H w t
Z4		 R8
, or
G26
t Z4

According to Theodor Hopfner , [11] Thoth's Egyptian name written as ḏḥwty originated from ḏḥw, claimed to be the oldest known name for the ibis although normally written as hbj. The addition of -ty denotes that he possessed the attributes of the ibis. [12] Hence his name means "He who is like the ibis".

The Egyptian pronunciation of ḏḥwty is not fully known, but may be reconstructed as *ḏiḥautī, based on the Ancient Greek borrowing Θωθ Thōth or Theut and the fact that it evolved into Sahidic Coptic variously as Thoout, Thōth, Thoot, Thaut as well as Bohairic Coptic Thōout. The final -y may even have been pronounced as a consonant, not a vowel. [13] However, many write "Djehuty", inserting the letter 'e' automatically between consonants in Egyptian words, and writing 'w' as 'u', as a convention of convenience for English speakers, not the transliteration employed by Egyptologists.[14]




Alternate names

Djehuty is sometimes alternatively rendered as
Jehuti, Tahuti, Tehuti, Zehuti, Techu, or Tetu.

Thoth (also Thot or Thout) is the Greek version
derived from the letters ḏḥwty. 		Djehuti: . . . ....
Egypt.: d(j)-h^u~t~yi : [D]
Egypt.: d(j)-h^oo^t~E......
Alt. Sp.: t~h-Oh-t(h).....:
hence, Gr.: "Thoth"
Alt.Sp. Gr.: "Thut"

Ancient Egyptian
cartouche of
Thutmose III, Karnak, Egypt.
The sense of the glyph pattern may be evaluated as:
:
d[j] h u(h)[w] t y : nether
Here~[Dynamic]~ Connection~ Continuous~[Region]~ Manifest~ ThroughoutDuality :[*D]-the God of

Not counting differences in spelling, Thoth had many names and titles, like other goddesses and gods.
Similarly, each Pharaoh , considered a god himself, had five different names used in public. [15]
Accordingly, alternate names refering to Thoth are A , Sheps, Lord of Khemennu, Asten, Khenti,
Mehi, Hab, and A'an. [16] In addition, Thoth was also known by specific aspects of himself, for instance
the moon god Iah -Djehuty, representing the moon for the entire month, [17] or as jt- nṯr "god father".
Further, the Greeks related Thoth to their god Hermes due to his similar attributes and functions. [18]

One of Thoth 's titles, "Three times great, great" (see Titles) was translated
to the Greek τρισμεγιστος (Trismegistos) making Hermes Trismegistus . [19]



Ma'at observing the Weighing of the Heart as measured with the Ostrich Feather of Truth.
The major Gods are in attendance (seated above) with Thoth (standing behind Anubis) noting the result.