T'Hot'H's other names include: Dj'Huti, Dje'Huty, D'Houti, Dje'Huti, Te'Huty, Te'Huti, T'Hout, Ze'Huti, S'Heps, Lord of Khe'Menu.
In art, the god was usually depicted with the head of an Ib'Is, deriving from his name, and the curve of the bird's beak, which resembles the crescent moon. He was sometimes depicted with the face of a dog-headed baboon and the body of a man or, again, as a full dog-headed baboon. The dog-headed baboon was a night animal that was seen by the Egyptians as the ones who greet the sun with chattering noises each morning just as T'Hot'T, the moon god, would greet Ra, the sun god, as he rose. The baboon was considered as a symbol of the evolution of souls in time.
T'Hot'H became credited as the inventor of writing, and was also considered to have been the scribe of the Underworld, and the moon became occasionally considered a separate entity, since the god became less associated with it, and more with wisdom. Also, he became credited as the inventor of the 365-day calendar, rather that 360-day. It is being said that he won the extra 5 days by gambling with the moon.
When the En'Nead and Og'Doad systems started to merge, one result was, for a time, Hor'Us was considered a sibling of Isis, Osiris, Set, and Nephthys, and so it was said that Hathor/Nuit had been cursed against having children during the 360-day calendar, but was able to have these 5 children over the 5 extra days won by T'Hot'H.
T'Hot'H the Scribe, wrote the story of our reality then placed it into grids for us to experience and learn through the alchemy of time and consciousness.
T'Hot'H was the god who overcame the curse of Ra, allowing Nut to give birth 5 children, with his skill at games.
It was he who helped Is'Is work the ritual to bring Osiris back from the dead, and who drove the poison of Set from her son, Hor'Us, with the power of his knowledge. He was Hor'us' supporter during the young god's deadly battle with his uncle Set, helping Hor'Us with his wisdom.
It was T'Hot'H who brought Tef'Nut, who left Egypt for Nub'Ia in a sulk after an argument with her father, back to the heaven to be reunited with Ra.
Tef-Nut, the Eye of Ra, became estranged from her father and fled to Nub'Ia, taking all her precious water with her. In this land, she transformed herself into a lioness. She ragged through the countryside, emitting flames from her eyes and nostrils. Viciously, she drank the blood and fed on the flesh of both animals and humans. As time went on, Ra missed his Eye, and longed to see her again -Egypt had dried, and the land was in chaos.
Ra summoned S'Hu to him, along with T'Hot'H, who was the messenger of the gods and famous for his eloquence. Ra issued the command that S'Hu and T'Hot'H must go to Nubia and bring back his recalcitrant daughter. Before they set off on their journey they disguised themselves as baboons. The baboon is an animal sacred to T'Hot'H. Eventually, T'Hot'H and S'Hu found Tef-Nut in Be'Gum.
T'Hot'T began at once to try to persuade her to return to Egypt. Tef-Nut, however, wasn't interested. She liked hunting in the desert and was perfectly happy where she was. He would not give up though, and wove stories to depict to her how gloom had descended upon Egypt since she had left. The people of Egypt would do anything for her if she'd just return home. Ultimately, wooed by his promises, she relented and returned to Egypt accompanied by 2 baboons. All the way there, T'Hot'H kept her entertained with stories. She made a triumphant entry back into the homeland, accompanied by a host of Nubian musicians, dancers and baboons. She went form city to city, bringing back moisture and water, amid great rejoicing, until finally she was reunited with her father, and restored to her rightful position as his Eye.
When Ra retired from the earth, he appointed T'Hot'H and told him of his desire to create a Light-soul in the Du'At and in the Land of the Caves, and it was over this region that the sun god appointed him to rule, ordering him to keep a register (scribe) of those who were there. He was ascribed to be the author of the spells in the 'Book of the Dead,' he was the helper or the punisher of the deceased as they try to enter the Underworld.
T'Hot'T became the representation of Ra in the afterlife, seen at the judgment of the dead in the 'Halls of the Double Ma'At.' In this role, his wife Ma'At, the personification of 'Order,' was the one who was weighed against the heart of the dead to see if they followed Ma'At during their lifetime.
T'Hot'T, known as the wise counselor and persuader, kept a great library of scrolls, and his association with the learning and the measurement, lead him to be connected with Ses'Hat, the earlier deification of wisdom, who became to be his daughter or wife.over which one of his wives, and Ses'Hat, as goddess of writing, became known as 'Mistress of the House of the Books,' in which she took care of his library full of spells and scrolls.
T'Hot'T then was associated with literature, arts, speech, and learning. He also was a measurer and recorder of time, as was Ses'Hat. His qualities led to him being identified by the Greeks with their closest matching god, Hermes, with whom T'Hot'T was eventually combined and became Hermes Tris-Megistus, also leading to the Greeks naming T'Hot'T' s cult centre as Hermopolis, meaning 'city of Hermes.'
During the late period of Egyptian history a cult of T'Hot'T gained prominence, due to its main centre, Kh'Num (Hermopolis Magna), in Upper Egypt also becoming the capital, and millions of dead Ib'Is were mummified and buried in his honor. The rise of his cult also lead to adjust T'Hot'T a greater role, including the Og'Doad cosmogony myth, mentioning T'Hot'T as the one who gives birth to a new cycle Ra/Atum/Nefertum/Khepri, as a result of laying as an Ib'Is, an egg containing him. Later it was said that this was done in the form of a goose -literally as a goose laying a golden egg. The sound of his song was thought to have created 4 frog gods and snake goddesses of the Og'Doad, who continued his song, helping the sun journey across the sky.
T'Hot'T, became more powerful and was known as the one who made the calculations concerning the heavens, the stars and the earth. Also the reckoner of times and seasons. The one in charge of the measurements of the heavens and the planner of the earth, and the balance between them. He was known in this way as the god of equilibrium of forces and the master of balance. As lord of the corporeal body, he continued to be the scribe of the company of gods, the voice of the sun god, the author of every branch of knowledge, visible and non-visible, and the one who understand all that is hidden under the heavenly vault. In this sense he was not just a scribe and friend to the gods, but central to 'order' with his wife Ma'At, both in Egypt and in the Duat.
T'Hot'T created a grid program of experience that is electromagnetic in nature to allow for the bipolar aspects of linear time and illusion. He constructed a pyramidal shaped vehicle personifying the nature of reality. He placed half above in the non physical and half below in the physical, thus creating the sands of time -the hourglass- at the center of the planet earth where it all began and will all evolve at 0 point, a time and place of balance.
His supernatural powers were so known and so great that the Egyptians had tales related to it in a so called 'Book of T'Hot'T,' which allowed a person who read the sacred book to become the most powerful magician in the world. The Book which 'the god of wisdom wrote with his own hand' was though, a deadly book that brought nothing but pain and tragedy to those that read it.
T'Hot'T was famous as the god of balance and equilibrium and because of this he was associated with the precision of equinoxes- a time when the day and the night were balanced.
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