'Thoth', in: J. Dieleman and W. Wendrich (eds), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: Open version, http://escholarship.org/uc/nelc_uee, 1st ed. (Los Angeles CA, 2012). The Egyptian god Thoth is best known as a god of writing and wisdom, a lunar deity, and vizier of the gods, but was also a cosmic deity, creator god, and warrior. Being one of the oldest deities of the Egyptian pantheon, he is attested in many sources from the earliest periods of Egyptian history up to the Roman Period. The etymology of his name remains unexplained, possibly due to the name's antiquity. Perhaps it is his age as a divine figure that led to a rather confusing mythology with a series of contradicting traditions concerning his descent and his reputation as a benevolent versus... |
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