✦ TITLE: Lord Thoth -- The God of Knowledge, Writing, and Wisdom
✦ SACRED ANIMALS: The Ibis and the Baboon
✦ DIVINE WEAPON: Tablet and Stylus
✦ NOTABLE EPITHETS: "Scribe of the Gods; Lord of Divine Words; Excellent of Magic; The Moon Shining In Heaven"
✦ PROFILE: https://deitiesproject.com/portfolio/thoth/
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Lord Thoth is the royal vizier and advisor of Ra, and he also serves as a lunar deity.
An experienced, high-ranking deity known by many roles and titles, Thoth is best regarded as the royal advisor. His vast knowledge is unparalleled among the gods, who often seek his wisdom and counsel -- among several tasks he fulfills unreservedly and to meticulous standards.
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The penultimate profile of this OC_Tober run lmao, it's Lord Thoth!
I've been pleasantly surprised by how many people seem to like my rendition of Thoth -- I know he's highly popular in the mythology itself, but gosh /)/////(\ several of his posts are quite popular too (even his playlist?? Which is the shortest one I have cuz it's hard to find songs for him that don't overlap others lmao??? 😭 but I digress)
I'm happy that so many seem interested in him though, and with his recent revamp, it’ll give me a good excuse to try featuring the divine teacher more once I have the chance. Hopefully I can show more facets of his character this way, too.
Speaking of which -- and not sure if this counts as a fun fact, but let’s roll with it -- did ya'll know Thoth can actually get angry? Like, visibly angry? I've yet had a reason to let Thoth lose his seemingly-endless patience, even when someone is trying to get a rise out of him (stares at Set…), but even the wisdom god has his limits when tested enough. No deity is completely immune to moments of divine wrath aha ;;;;;
I have plans to push Thoth's limit in the main story (for good reason), but until then, here’s an older doodle of him in baboon form, simply because I wanted to practice drawing his literal and figurative fangs:
Before the beginning began, before existence existed, Thought in the Universe’s Mind created Desire in the Heart, Desire spoke Word in the Heart, and Word made Flesh. Flesh brought all and everything into Being, and started the process of the Cosmos’ becoming into the Universe. The Creator’s first thought, before the beginning was,
“I want to know Me. I want to think, see, hear, smell, taste, and feel, but I cannot because I am spirit. I am in potential rest in my eternal space. I want to be, and continue to become so that I can know that I am who I am. I am the Creator who will know that I am the Creator, but the only way to know is to come through physical form.”
The Creator decided to create creations in His-Her image that She-He could live to achieve His-Her desire; “To Know Self.” To do that, the Creator began as a Womb-Seed, in the Blackness of the Dark Universe.
- Professor Kaba Hiawatha Kamene | Spirituality Before Religions: Spirituality is Unseen Science; Science is Seen Spirituality
An interesting question in how far the death of Osiris is to be regarded as the sacrifice of the god, and part of the order of existence. It is to be deduced from a few Pyramid texts, though, that not oly Seth but also Thoth failed to participate in the lament:
“Behold what Seth and Thoth have done, your two brothers, who knew not how to weep for you.”
According to H. Jacobsohn a) this would afford an indication that Thoth was the actual instigator of the murder:
“Seth, a vainglorious force of nature and a notorious Taipei and Riipel, ... it was easy to fall into such an act of violence. But that was the God who knew exactly what he wanted. He had, of course, set in motion the game divine Drama ...“ (1)
It is said of the wise moon-god Thoth that he reckons the lifetime of gods and men. The idea that Osiris had to go to the realm of the dead seems to have been accepted to some extent, but his death is to be deplored because he was murdered by Seth. This act is disorderly because done by the originator of disorder, a part in which Seth also appears outside the myth of Osiris.
Seth had made a chest, which afterwards proved to be a coffin to the measure of Osiris, Seth having secretly obtained information as to his stature. At a feast he promised to give the chest to him who would fit into it. As soon as Osiris proved to fit in, Seth did not make him a present of it as lie had promised, so that Osiris might be buried in it after his natural death, but immediately closed down the lid, thus prematurely taking his life. Moreover, he did not place the coffin in a tomb, but had it thrown into the water and let it float away to sea. Thus Seth promised eternal life, for to the Egyptian mind the possession of a sarcophagus garanteed a continued existence after death, but he gave death.
It is striking that in the many religious texts relating to Osiris so few particulars are given of Seth's deed. In the great Osiris hymn I uvre C 2136 and on the Ikhernofret stela it is not related in what manner Osiris died nor that he was murdered by Seth. Myth and ritual create order, "the chaotic is assembled into a structured order. Disorder must become order or be made subservient to it. It may be that in stories outside the narrow circle of myth and ritual and that had no religious function, more independent at-tention was paid to the outrage of Seth.
We have seen in the preceding chapter that in religious texts the homosexual nature of the relations between Horus and Seth was only hinted at, while texts that had no religious function supplied details. The detailed report left us by Plutarch.) of the way Seth murdered Osiris may go back to such non-religious Egyptian tales. The image of Seth that results from his account is that of a divine murderer and deceiver, who employs ruse.
In the earliest religious texts about Osiris, the Pyramid texts, t is already hinted at that Seth murdered Osiris:
“You have come in search of your brother Osiris, when his brother Seth had thrown him on his side on that side of the land Gehesti.”
“They found Osiris when his brother Seth had thrown him on the ground in Nedit.”
“Osiris was thrown down on his side by his brother Seth. But he who is in Nedit, moves himself...”
“O Osiris N.N., unto you is brought he who killed you.”
Since the texts do no more than hint, it is to be surmised that they render the tradition incompletely. The death by drowning and the murder by Seth would appear to be two aspects of the same event. A Coffin text states:
"He (Seth) let him (Osiris) he drowned."
Death by drowning does not seem to me to be the natural death of a god of the Nile, but a disorderly death caused by Seth, who manifests himself in thunder, storm and rain. A Pyramid text says that an offering protects Osiris from the gushing water of the arm ( ?) of Seth..) In a Coffin text the deceased prays: "nay I have power over the water, as Seth had power when he harmed. Seth, who manifests himself in rain and thunder-storms, is a god who spews.
"He has inundated the land with his evil design, Ile has felled the sky to the ground”
As supporter of the sky Seth is appealed to in a prayer by Ramses II!) In the pap. Bremner-Rhind ') Seth is accused of having let the sky fall upon the earth. In the "Contendings of Horus and Seth" Seth becomes angry with the gods and shouts:
"I shall take my d'm-sceptre of 4500nms-punds and every day I shall kill one of you!"
Thus the narrator supposes that with his heavy sceptre Seth was able to strike a god dead. However, I know of no text in which it is openly stated that Seth killed Osiris with the taii-sceptre. If Seth killed Osiris with the to3f.sceptre, then this concept, like that of murder by means of a flood of water, could be brought into connection with Seth who manifests himself in thunder-storms and rain. The spiral shaft of the 4'm-sceptre might be an imitation of lightning. The word tu3i means dominion,') the te3f -sceptre can apparently be regarded as a symbol of order. Gods often hold it. Considering the meaning of the verb tv3gi and the suggestion that the w31 or Pm-sceptre might be used as an instrument of murder, this sceptre seems also to be a symbol of disorder, in the same way as water and fore-leg manifest death and life in their symbolism. The three symbols water, bull's leg and wet-sceptre each seem to have a negative aspect beside their positive aspects of renovation, strength and dominion. Perhaps the streaming rain, the stamping bull's foot and the fulgurant sceptre symbolised the dreadful night of horror in which the "aporreton" took place, the murder of Osiris by Seth.
Translated parts:
(1) Seth, eine prah-lerische Kraftnatur and ein notorischer Tolpel and Riipel, ... war zu einer solchen Gewalttat leicht au verfiilven. Thot aber war der Gott, der genau wusste was er wollte. Er hatte of fenbar das game gottliche Drama in Gang gesetzt ...
Seth: God of Confusion by. H. te Velde;
Art by. SaraForlenza
Upcoming post: Seth, as the Demon of Death
Related articles:
- Conflict of Horus and Set: Historical Background
- Seth: Phallus of Set, God of Sexuality
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