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Ibis-headed god
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thoth
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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ancient Egyptian god of wisdom and magic, hieroglyphics, and the reckoning of time, from Latin, from Greek Thoth , from Egyptian Tehuti . Usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis. By the Greeks, assimilated to their Hermes .
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Thoth is a newsreader for Mac OS X written by Brian Clark, currently at its revision 1.9.1.2. It requires Mac OS X 10.5.0 on Intel or PPC. There are also special versions for MacOS 10.4 PPC or Intel. On December 30, 2013 the developer posted a notice to ...
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According to a passage in Manetho, much suspected, however, of being an interpolation, Thoth, or Hermes Trismegistus, had himself, before the cataclysm, inscribed on stelæ, in hieroglyphical and sacred language, the principles of all knowledge.
After the Deluge the second Thoth translated the contents of these stelæ into the vulgar tongue.
Would there be myths, like those of Prometheus, Thoth, or Cannes, about divine beings who had given the gift of language to the apes?
Rax could tell through the dust and the spider webs, the cartouche of Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom.
That it held the cartouche of Thoth and not one of the necropolis symbols was rare enough.
Instead, a mighty serpent coiled its length around the coffin, its head, marked with the cartouche of Thoth, resting above the breast of the mummy.
Flinging aside the crumpled corpse, already forgetful of it, Thoth grasped the ring in both hands, his dark eyes blazing with a fearful avidness.
Thoth was normally launched by aircraft kept just at the team's horizon, but in this case there weren't any airplanes for that, so the birds were lofted by solid rockets.
Ladislaw has told me the reason--dislike of the bent he took, you know-- Ladislaw didn't think much of Casaubon's notions, Thoth and Dagon-- that sort of thing: and I fancy that Casaubon didn't like the independent position Ladislaw had taken up.