Cult of Gods

Thoth

Also: Djehuty

Egyptian tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
writing, moon, wisdom, judgment record
Symbols and attributes
Ibis; baboon; scribe's palette
Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.
Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.

Key myth

Scribe of the gods, who records the verdict when the heart is weighed against Maat's feather. He reconciles disputes between Horus and Seth and restores the Eye.

Primary sources

  • Book of the Dead, Spell 125
  • Contendings of Horus and Seth

All sources for the Egyptian pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

NunAtumRaAmunShuTefnutMaatHathorSekhmetPtahGebNutAnubisThothSobekOsirisIsisSethNephthysHorus

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorseA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.HinduFolio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.Celtic (Irish)

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Thoth: the moon, wisdom, writing and divination. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Odin

wisdom, poetry, war

Norse

Frigg

foresight, marriage, motherhood

Mesopotamian

Enki / Ea

fresh water, wisdom, craft

Mesopotamian

Marduk

Babylon's patron, king of the gods in the first millennium

Hindu

Varuna

cosmic order (ṛta), waters

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