THOTH  , the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek name of the See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian See also:

• GOD

god of letters, invention and See also:

• WISDOM, BOOK OF, or WISDOM OF SOLOMON (Sept. Io4ia IaXwµwvos; Lat. Vulg. Liber sapientiae)

wisdom (e.g . Thowt, Zlnviy), the See also:

• MOUTHPIECE (Fr. embouchure; Ger. Mundstuck; Ital. bocchino)

mouthpiece and See also:

• RECORDER
• RECORDER, FIPPLE FLUTE

recorder of the gods, and arbiter of their disputes . Thoth is found on the earliest monuments symbolized by an See also:

• IBIS

ibis (Ibis aethiopica, still not uncommon in See also:

• NUBIA

Nubia), which See also:

• BIRD

bird was sacred to him . In the See also:

• PYRAMID

Pyramid texts Thoth is already closel'yassociated with the See also:

• OSIRIS

Osiris myth, having aided the god by his See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science and knowledge of magic, and demonstrated the See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of his claims in the contest with Set . Thoth presided over See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing, measuring and calculation, and is prominent in the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of the weighing of the soul . He was often identified with the See also:

• MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
• MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)

moon as a divider of See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and in this connexion, during the New See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire, the See also:

• APE (Old Eng. ape; Dutch aap; Old Ger. a ffo; Welsh epa; Old Bohemian op; a word of uncertain origin, possibly an imitation of the animal's chatter)

ape first appears as his sacred See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal . Thoth was identified by the Greeks with See also:

• HERMES
• HERMES, GEORG (1775-1831)

Hermes, and Hermes Trismegistus (q.v.) is a See also:

• LATE

late development of the Egyptian god . Geographically the See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship of Thoth in See also:

• LOWER

Lower See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt centred in the Hermopolite See also:

• NOME

nome, contiguous to the Busirite and Mendesian nomes . This was. the See also:

• DISTRICT

district anciently called ZJIwi, and the god's name Zhwty means simply him of Zhwt." But Hermopolis Magna in Upper Egypt, now Eshmunain, was a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of greater See also:

• POLITICAL

political importance than Hermopolis in Lower Egypt . See E . A . W .

Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians; and specially EGYPT: See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

Ancient, § See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

Religion . (F . Li .