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

The most intelligent couple in Egyptian mythology is He, 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

In the same time period in Ancient Egypt, writing appears, 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 the 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 Oldest God

According to some sources, He was an Atlantean with all the knowledge of the lost civilization of Atlantis. It is claimed that he was the deified king of Egypt in the "era of the reign of the Gods." That is a very long time, for tens of millennia before our era. In addition, according to some sources, it was this ancient Egyptian god of wisdom who built the Great Pyramid at 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 sages, and Hermes Trischengalishishshim, 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 and their deity Hermes, although the latter was the messenger of the gods and the patron of trade. But sometimes Hermes is compared with Prometheus in the field of teaching mankind the 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, Anubis, later Osiris, was the kings first, He had the most direct relation to the dead.

Osiris Court

He kept a record of them, because he always attended the Osiris trial with his wife. The God of wisdom, who taught people to write, the personal secretary of Ra, always portrayed with him alongside him in the Boat of Eternity (or the Boat of millions of years), kept records and classifications of the souls of the dead. Maat had his duties in court. She weighed the hearts of people who had gone to another world. And on one side of the scale we laid the heart of the deceased, on the other - a statuette of the Maat itself. Equilibrium meant that a person is a righteous man and is worthy of the ancient Egyptian paradise - eternal bliss in the reed fields of Jaru.

The creator of time

They gave Tot tribute and as a god of time, because it is he who is credited with creating the year of 365 days, 5 of which he allegedly won in the bone. This is a very interesting version, because it was on these added days that Osiris, Seth, Nephthys, Horuru and Isis were born. According to legend, their mother, the goddess Nut, was forbidden to give birth during the whole year, consisting of 360 days. He, adding the won days, made the year full, and Nut presented the happiness of motherhood. Thus, the god of wisdom in ancient Egypt ensured the birth of the main gods of the ancient Egyptian pantheon. He broke the year for months, them - for days and weeks, and so on. He kept records of time and events. In large numbers he invented everyday and religious rituals, that is, he arranged the life of people. Concerned that the amount of information taught to them by mankind dies with their departure to another world, the god of wisdom in the Egyptian pantheon decided to teach the people of 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 whole intellectual life of ancient Egypt.

God is a virtue

Do not count his good deeds and duties. It is believed that He is associated with the tides of the Nile, that it was he who returned from Nubia to Egypt Tefnut, the goddess of moisture and moist air, dew, rain and fertility, thus ensuring the flowering of Egyptian nature. They consider him a god of higher magic, writing and music. Probably, everything that man differs from an animal was known by God. All kinds of knowledge and creativity were in his diocese. He is a perfect and positive God, too, very similar to Prometheus, who has not committed any dual actions. The God of wisdom in Ancient Egypt is usually depicted by a man who has an ibis head on his shoulders. According to scientists, it is the forest ibis - a bird that has almost disappeared now. No one knows why the ancient Egyptians for the symbol of wisdom was chosen specifically ibis. There are suggestions that because of the feathers that served for writing. Very often this god is depicted with a baboon. In his hands, as a rule, He holds a writing board that looks like a palette.

Extensive Pantheon

The ancient Egyptian gods are significantly different from other gods of the ancient world. For example, each of them had five names, which could vary within a 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, a list of them will take more than one page. There are many lists where the main ancient Egyptian gods are represented in an amount of 13 to 18 subjects. They are Ra and Amon, Anubis and Osiris, Aton and Horus, That and Khnum, Seth, Ptah and Sebek. In addition, the list of "main" includes the goddess Isis and Hathor.