Egypt · Writing, reckoning and the moon
Thoth ḏḥwty
Also written Djehuty and Tehuti.
- God of
- Writing, reckoning and the moon
- Recognised by
- An ibis-headed man with a scribe's palette, or a baboon
- Chief cult centre
- Hermopolis
The scribe of the gods, who records the verdict at the weighing of the heart and keeps the reckoning of time. Writing itself is his gift, which makes him the god most interested in the medium everything else here survives in.
Egyptian sources What Egyptians wrote, on walls, coffins and papyri. What that means
In the correspondence web
Herodotus writes of this god only as Hermes and never gives the Egyptian name, so there is no equation of his to quote and none is drawn.