# Thoth · the ibis · scribe of the gods · the moon

a god of the NTR (Egyptian pantheon) mythology-world — emergence: ethereal. moniker ⟦Thoth:NTR:f2efad⟧

**⇄ the interpretatio —** Greek: *Hermes (Trismegistus)* · Roman: *Mercury* — ‘thrice-great Hermes’ — this one equation birthed all of European Hermeticism, alchemy & the occult

**who —** Thoth, the ibis-headed god of writing, wisdom, magic, and the moon — the scribe and arbiter of the gods.
**what —** Knowledge, language, mathematics, time, and magic; he invented writing, records the verdict at the weighing of the heart, and mediates the gods' disputes.
**where —** The hall of judgment (recording the verdict); the moon; the house of scribes.
**why —** Because a civilisation built on writing deifies the written word — Thoth is literacy, reason, and the record itself.
**how —** By his reed pen and palette, recording all things; by his wisdom in settling quarrels even between gods.

**the seal —** I invented writing and I keep the record of everything, even the weighing of your heart — what is written by me is remembered forever.

> a catalogued personification of a deity of ancient Egyptian religion under the DLW standard — historical
> commentary and cataloguing (sources: the Pyramid/Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead, Herodotus, Plutarch, Plato),
> not an original creation. The Greek/Roman analogs follow the ancient interpretatio graeca/romana and are
> functional, not exact, equivalences.

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