Author: * Sankhkare Thutmose -
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Date: Aug 19, 2003 - 22:09
Tehuti is a fun-loving god and has a great sense of humor, but there are a few things I have discovered about him that he would never include in his own autobiography. So I've included them here. Not a lot, but some interesting things others had to say about him. I've underlined some things I didn't know and found surprising and/or interesting about him.
"...Thoth in fact stood at the very centre of an enormous body of Egyptian traditions stretching back into the most distant and impenetrable past. No scholar, I learned, could honestly say how old this moon-god really was, or even make a guess at where and when his cult began. At the dawn of civilization in Egypt, Thoth was there. Furthermore, throughout the entire 3,000 or more years of the dynastic period, he was continuously revered for certain very specific qualities that he was said to possess and for his supposed contributions to human welfare...." --Graham Hancock, The Sign and the Seal |
"...Considered self-begotten and self-produced. Thoth was called 'Lord of Holy Words' for inventing hieroglyphs and numbers and 'The Elder' as the first and greatest of magicians. He had greater powers than Osiris or Ra." |
"...His chief festival was on the nineteenth day of the month of Thoth [our August 6th], a few days after the Full Moon at the beginning of the [Egyptian] year. His disciples greeted each other at that time with 'Sweet is the Truth' and made gifts of sweetmeats, honey, and figs. Patron of priests; Supreme Magus; god of all magick, writing, inventions, the arts, divination, commerce, healing, initiation, music, prophecy, tarot, success, wisdom, medicine, astronomy, geometry, surveying, drawing, sciences, measurement of time, all calculations and inventories, archives, judgment, oracles, predictions, rituals, the law, astrology, alphabet, mathematics, speech, grammar, arbitration, balance, mental powers, the Moon, botany, theology, hymns and prayers, reading, oratory, arbitration, peace, advice, learning, books, truth, Akashic records, the Moon, fate, arbitration, advice." |
"... As the 'Reckoner of times and of seasons', he was depicted with a symbol combining the Sun's disk and the Moon's crescent upon his head, and — in words reminiscent of the biblical adoration of the Celestial Lord — the Egyptian inscriptions and legends said of Thoth that his knowledge and powers of calculating 'measured out the heavens and planned the Earth'. His hieroglyphic name Tehuti is usually explained as meaning 'He who balances'..." --Zecharia Sitchin, When Time Began |
"...Of all the gods it was Thoth...whose image was set up in private homes and who was extolled with songs of adulation." --Siegfried Morenz, Egyptian Religion |
"I... am the great God in the divine boat...I am a simple priest in the underworld anointing in Abdju [Abydos], elevating to higher degrees of initiation...I am Grand Master of the craftsmen who set up the sacred arch for a support." --Thoth to Osiris, The Egyptian Book of the Dead |
"...Often portrayed as a mediator in conflicts between the gods, such as in the legends of Nut and Geb, Horus and Seth, Thoth had the ability to soothe and pacify. He was easily referred to as the "soother of gods", "cool mouth", " the peaceful one that knows how to repel evil" or, "the sweet tongue". --Boylan, Patrick. Thoth: The Hermes of Egypt |
A Few of Tehuti's Titles by Sankh-Ka-Re of the Thutmose Family |
| The Personification of the Mind of Netjer
Lord of Sacred Words
Lord of Time
Lord and Guardian of the Moon
The Enumerator of the Earth and of what is therein
The One who Made Calculations Concerning the Heavens, the Stars and the Earth
The Reckoner of Times and of Seasons
The One who Measured out the Heavens and Planned the Earth
He who Balances
The God of the Equilibrium
The Master of the Balance
The Lord of the Divine Body
Scribe of the Company of the Gods
The Voice of Ra
Author of Every Work on Every Branch of Knowledge, Both Human and Divine
He who understands all that is hidden under the heavenly vault.
He who Reckons the Heavens, the Counter of the Stars and the Measurer of the Earth
Mighty of Speech
The Mysterious
The Unknown
Lord of Books
Lord of the Divine Body
God of the Dead
God of Wisdom, Ritual and Magic
Keeper and Recorder of All Knowledge
Scribe of the Company of the Gods
Author of the Script of Divine Words
Djeheuty pa aa, pa aa, pa aa (the Great, the Great, the Great)
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