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{{short description|Ancient Egyptian deity of the Moon, learning, writing}} {{About|the ancient Egyptian deity|other uses}} {{Redirect|Djehuty|ancient Egyptians named Djehuty or Djehuti|Djehuty (given name)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox deity | type = Egyptian | name = Thoth | hiero = <hiero>G26-t:Z4-A40</hiero> or<ref>Hieroglyphs verified, in part, in {{harvp|Budge|1969|loc=vol. 1, p. 402}}, and {{harvp|Collier|Manley|1998|p=161}}.</ref> <hiero>D-H-w-t:Z4-R8</hiero> | image = Thoth.svg | image_upright = 1.0 | alt = Thoth | caption = Thoth, in one of his forms as an [[ibis]]-headed man | cult_center = [[Hermopolis]] | symbol = Ibis, moon disk, [[papyrus]] scroll, reed pens, writing palette, stylus, baboon, scales | parents = | consort = [[Maat]], [[Seshat]], [[Nehmetawy]] | siblings = | offspring = [[Seshat]]{{efn|Also said to be his consort in rare accounts.}} | Greek_equivalent = [[Hermes]] | Roman_equivalent = [[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]] }} {{Ancient Egyptian religion}} '''Thoth''' (from {{langx|grc-x-koine|Θώθ}} {{tlit|grc|Thṓth}}, borrowed from {{langx|cop|Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ}} {{tlit|grc|Thōout}}, {{langx|egy-Latn|Ḏḥwtj}}, the reflex of {{tlit|egy|[[wikt:ḏḥwtj|ḏḥwtj]]}} "[he] is like the ibis") is an [[ancient Egyptian deity]]. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an [[African sacred ibis|ibis]] or a [[baboon]], animals sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was [[Seshat]], and his wife was [[Maat]].<ref>Eric H Cline, David O'Connor (January 5, 2006), ''Thutmose III: A New Biography'', University of Michigan Press, p. 127</ref> He was the god of the Moon, wisdom, knowledge, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art and judgment. Thoth's chief [[Egyptian temple|temple]] was located in the city of [[Hermopolis]] ({{langx|egy-Latn|[[wikt:ḫmnw|ḫmnw]]}} {{ipa|/χaˈmaːnaw/}}, [[Egyptological pronunciation]]: Khemenu, {{langx|cop|Ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ}} {{tlit|cop|Shmun}}). Later known as {{tlit|ar|el-Ashmunein}} in [[Egyptian Arabic]], the Temple of Thoth was mostly destroyed before the beginning of the Christian era. Its very large [[pronaos]] was still standing in 1826, but was demolished and used as fill for the foundation of a sugar factory by the mid-19th century.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Verner |first1=Miroslav |title=Temple of the World: Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt |date=2013 |publisher=American University in Cairo Press |isbn=978-977-416-563-4 |page=149 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Khh0BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA149}}</ref><ref>{{cite wikisource|chapter=Destruction of Egyptian Monuments|wslink=Littell's Living Age/Volume 153/Issue 1972|plaintitle=Littell's Living Age|last=|first=|year=|publisher=|page=|wspage=|scan=}}</ref> Thoth played many vital and prominent roles in [[Egyptian mythology]], such as maintaining the universe, and being one of the two deities (the other being Ma'at) who stood on either side of [[Ra|Ra's ]][[solar barque]].{{sfnp|Budge|1969|p=400}} In the later history of ancient Egypt, Thoth became heavily associated with the arbitration of godly disputes,{{sfnp|Budge|1969|p=405}} the arts of magic, the system of writing, and the judgment of the dead.{{sfnp|Budge|1969|p=403}}
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