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the goddess touth
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Thoth was considered one of the more important deities of the Egyptian
pantheon. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an
ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. As in the main picture, Thoth
is almost always shown holding a Was (a wand or rod symbolizing power)
in one hand and an Ankh (the key of the Nile symbolizing life) in the
other hand. His feminine counterpart was Seshat, and his wife was Ma'at.
Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Khmun, later renamed
Hermopolis Magna during the Greco-Roman era (in reference to him through
the Greeks' interpretation that he was the same as their god Hermes)
and Eshmûnên in the Coptic rendering. In that city, he led the Ogdoad
pantheon of eight principal deities. He also had numerous shrines within
the cities of Abydos, Hesert, Urit, Per-Ab, Rekhui, Ta-ur, Sep, Hat,
Pselket, Talmsis, Antcha-Mutet, Bah, Amen-heri-ab, and Ta-kens.
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's boat. In the later
history of ancient Egypt, Thoth became heavily associated with the
arbitration of godly disputes, the arts of magic, the system of writing,
the development of science, and the judgment of the dead
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