The God of wisdom, who taught people to write, is the One

The most intelligent couple in Egyptian mythologyHe is the god of wisdom who taught people to write, and his wife Maat, the goddess of truth and order. Jehuti (the second name of Thoth) is a very ancient god. It is mentioned in the pre-dynastic period - 5000-3100 gg. BC.

Time of great dynasties

At the same time in ancient Egyptthere is a written language, the earliest monuments of which date back to 3400 BC. During the time relating to the dynastic period, the very mythology of Ancient Egypt was very different. Each dynasty that came to power established a cult of a deity who patronized their kin. Thus, the V dynasty of the Old Kingdom was recognized as the supreme deity of the sun god Ra, replaced by the god of space and air, Amon, and then the god of the dead - Osiris. The God of wisdom, who taught people to write, was known long before the supreme deities listed above.

The Most Ancient God

Согласно некоторым источникам, Тот был атлантом, possessing all the knowledge of the lost civilization of Atlantis. They say that he was the deified king of Egypt in the "epoch of the reign of the Gods". That is a very long time, for tens of millennia before our era. In addition, according to some data, it was this ancient Egyptian god of wisdom who built the Great Pyramid in Giza, where he hid the ancient chronicles of the Atlanteans. As soon as they do not call him - and the leader of the seven Egyptian wise men, and Hermes Trischengalishayshim, who wrote according to legend about 36 thousand books, which contain all the wisdom of the world.

The image that accommodated many

For some reason, the Greeks made analogies between Thoth andhis deity Hermes, although the latter was the messenger of the gods and the patron of commerce. But sometimes Hermes is compared to Prometheus in the field of teaching humanity to sciences and skills. And here you can find much in common between Thoth and Prometheus. The God of wisdom, who taught people to write in ancient Egypt, echoes the image of a titan who taught the reading and writing of his fellow tribesmen, the ancient Greeks. In addition, the image of Thoth has much in common with the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom Athena Pallada. Some similarities can be found in Jehuti and Aid, the ruler of the underworld of ancient Greece. And although in Daute, the afterlife of the ancient Egyptians, the Anubis were first kings, later Osiris, He had the most direct relation to the dead.

Osiris Court

He kept records of them, as he always with his wife.attended the court of Osiris. The God of wisdom, who taught people to write, the personal secretary of Ra, who was always depicted next to him in the boat of eternity (or the Boat of millions of years), kept records and classification of souls of the dead. Maat had his duties at the trial. She weighed the hearts of people who had departed to another world. And on one side of the scale they laid the heart of a dead man, on the other - a statuette of Maat herself. Equilibrium meant that man is righteous and is worthy of the ancient Egyptian paradise - eternal bliss in the reed fields of Jara.

Time maker

They gave Totu a tribute to him as a god of time, becausehe is credited with creating the year of 365 days, 5 of which he allegedly won a dice. This is a very interesting version, since it was on these added days that Osiris, Seth, Neftida, Khoruru and Ishida were born. According to legend, their mother, the goddess Nuth, was forbidden to give birth during the whole year, which consisted of 360 days. He added the won days, made the year full-fledged, and Nuth presented the happiness of motherhood. Thus, the god of wisdom in ancient Egypt provided the birth of the main gods of the ancient Egyptian pantheon. He broke the year into months, them into days and weeks, and so on. He kept records of time and events. In large quantities, he invented everyday and religious rituals, that is, settled the lives of people. Concerned that the amount of information taught to humanity dies with their departure to another world, the god of wisdom in the Egyptian pantheon decided to teach people writing and thus ensure the transfer of accumulated knowledge from generation to generation. And then he acquainted mankind with all the exact sciences. He is considered the organizer of the entire intellectual life of ancient Egypt.

God virtue

Do not count his good deeds and responsibilities.It is believed that He is associated with the tides of Nile, that it was he who returned Tefnut, goddess of moisture and moist air, dew, rain and fertility, from Nubia to Egypt, thus ensuring the flowering of Egyptian nature. He is considered the god of high magic, writing and music. Probably all that man differs from the animal, the God God knew. All kinds of knowledge and creativity were in his diocese. He is a perfect and positive god, which also very much resembles Prometheus, who did not perform any dual acts. The god of wisdom in ancient Egypt is usually depicted as a man who has an ibis head on his shoulders. According to scientists, the forest ibis is the bird that has almost disappeared now. No one knows why the ancient Egyptians chose ibis for the symbol of wisdom. There are suggestions that because of the feathers that were used for writing. Very often this god is depicted with a baboon. In his hands, as a rule, Thoth holds a writing board that looks like a palette.

Vast pantheon

Ancient Egyptian gods are significantly different fromother gods of the ancient world. For example, each of them had five names that could change during the day. They did not contact people, did not have clear tasks and functions, that is, they were more abstract than, say, the inhabitants of Olympus. In the Egyptian pantheon there are many gods, the list will take more than one page. There are many lists where the main ancient Egyptian gods are in the amount of from 13 to 18 subjects. They are Ra and Amon, Anubis and Osiris, Aton and Horus, Toth and Khnum, Seth, Pta and Sebek. In addition, the list of "main" includes the goddess Isis and Hathor.