God of knowledge and wisdom

Thoth or Tut, the god of wisdom at the pharaohs. One of the cosmic lords of Thamun. It is considered one of the most important ancient Egyptian deities and is depicted with the head of an ibis. His female counterpart is the goddess Maat, and it was his primary shrine at Echmoun as the main deity was there.

The ancient Egyptians considered that the god Thoth was the one who taught them writing and arithmetic (see arithmetic at the ancient Egyptians). He is always depicted holding a pen and a tablet writing on it. He has a key role in the court of the dead, where the dead are brought after the resurrection to carry out the process of weighing his heart in front of the right feather Maat. Thoth records the result of the scale. If the heart of the dead is heavier than the feather of truth – then he is among the sinners and disobedient – his heart is thrown to an imaginary predatory beast named Am’mut, and it will devour him this will be the eternal end of the dead. But if the heart is lighter than the feather of the truth (Maat), then this means that the deceased was righteous in this world, and he enters Paradise where he lives with his wife and loved ones after Osiris receives him.

origin of its name

Later the Greeks renamed it (Hermopolis) [The Greeks saw him as the envoy of the gods, just like (Hermes-Hermes), and the Arabs renamed him (Ashmonin).

He has shrines in several other places, for example (Abydos). The book (The Gods of the Egyptians) presents sayings that (Thoth) was born from the skull of (Sit), and it also presents other sayings that he was born from the heart of (Ra).

He was considered the heart and tongue of Ra, in addition to transmitting the will of Ra to humans. In Egyptian mythology, Thoth played many vital and prominent roles, in addition to being one of the gods – the other was Maat – who stood on both sides of the boat of Ra.

The god Thoth

It is considered one of the most important ancient Egyptian deities and is depicted with the head of (Ibis), and it was his main shrine in (Ashmut), where he was the main deity there; he was a god of magic, writing, literature and science, as he participated in counting the dead.

And he possessed super magical abilities, so that the Egyptians believed in (The Book of Thoth), which turns its reader into the most capable magician in the world.

He has shrines in several other places, for example (Abydos presents the book 0 of the ancient Egyptian god) sayings that (Thoth) was born from the skull of (Set), and also presents other sayings that he was born from the heart (Ra). He was considered the heart and tongue of Ra, in addition to transmitting the will of Ra to humans.

In Egyptian mythology, Thoth played many vital and prominent roles and was one of the gods who stood on both sides of the boat (Ra).

Legends of the god Thoth

Thoth was a god who was also a god of wisdom and knowledge in the ancient Egyptian civilization, and this relationship with the moon can be explained by what this planet aroused in the souls of the ancient Egyptians of reverence for the forms that were manifested throughout the lunar month. That is why he called Thoth (Lord of Heaven), (The Mysterious), (The Enlightened with Mysteries), (The Silent) and (Symbol of Wisdom and Reverence).

The biggest celebration of Thoth took place in the first month of the Egyptian calendar. From the modern state onwards, that month was called Thoth or (Tut) in the Coptic language, and the truth is that the silent sad appearance of the bird (Epis) was behind its association with Thoth as a symbol of this god who was sometimes called directly (epis).

The titles of Thoth (The Knower) and (Experienced in Knowledge) reflect a gem as familiar with the world of magic and its mysterious powers as he is (the master of magic) and (the great in magic). He is also the inventor of writing and the setter of the customary laws and laws contained in the sacred books, and he as a writer was a unique Deity protector of the Egyptian writers class.

In the modern state, he is depicted in the form of a statue of a seated scribe practising many tasks because he grants positions to those he loves, disregarding the greatness of those who prove his skill among them in his job because he is in the supreme house in this honourable profession, he is (writer) or (writer of letters) the gods (and a recorder) accounts) the sun god. An ancient legend wisely pacified the conflict between the two warring gods (Horus and West). With his magic, he was able to heal the eye of Horus, which was wounded during the fighting and became once again free of any evil. It included the knowledge of Thoth, the languages ​​of other peoples, and perhaps, for this reason, he bore the title (Send of foreign countries since the ancient state.

Temple of the god Thoth

In May 2010, the remains of a huge temple of King Amenhotep the Third were discovered on the western mainland in Luxor, including two large statues of King Amenhotep and the god Thoth and a red granite statue of Thoth, about four meters long, and considered one of the largest statues of Thoth that were discovered.

Attributes of the god Thoth

Thoth had several important functions in the ancient Egyptian religion. First, he was the mediator in the struggle between the forces of good and evil, and he had to not one of them overpower and destroy the other. It is also attributed to him that he taught the Egyptians to write as the writer of the gods.

In the other world, Dawat appears in the form of an ibis, the god of scales, which records the result of weighing the heart of the dead in the scales about the weight of a feather, representing the teachings of Maat, truth, justice and cosmic order.

The ancient Egyptians believed that Thoth was a god who created himself by himself, representing the divine law and morals, and he had to take into account the realization of Maat.

At the same time, he was the owner of accounts for the formation of the sky, the stars, the earth, and what is in them. And the goddess Maat was the preserver of the cosmic order. It is attributed to him moving celestial bodies. Without his words – in the belief of the ancient Egyptians – the gods could not survive. His power was without limits in the underworld, comparable to that of Ra and Osiris.

The ancient Egyptians attributed him as the owner of all sciences, works, religion, philosophy and magic. The Greeks considered him the inventor of astronomy, numerology, astrology, mathematics, earth measurement, medicine, agronomy, religious rituals, and writing.

nautical calendar

The Egyptians’ knowledge of the calendar, the days of the year and the months were associated with the god Thoth. Some even call the Egyptian calendar the Tutan calendar and the first month.