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The fictional Book of Thoth appears in an ancient Egyptian short story from the Ptolemaic period, known as "Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah" or "Setne I". The book, written by Thoth, contains two spells, one of which allows the reader to understand the speech of animals, and one which allows the reader to perceive the gods themselves.
A story in the Palestinian Talmud relates how a rich tax collector named Bar Ma'yan and a poor Torah scholar die the same day; a friend is troubled at the rich man's lavish funeral compared to his poor friend dying obscurity. He has a dream where the rich man is in torment, and the poor man happy in paradise; this is due to the fact that the ...
Thoth is a recurring character in The Kane Chronicles book series. [citation needed] Thoth appears in the 2021 comic book series God of War: Fallen God, [46] which is based on the God of War video game franchise. In the 2002 Ensemble Studios game Age of Mythology, Thoth is one of nine minor gods that can be worshipped by Egyptian players. [47] [48]
Ta Phar, first in line for the throne, dislikes Moses due to his peculiar interests and ways of living that he learns from Mentu. Mentu also sparks Moses’ interest in religion, telling him of the Book of Thoth, a book that provides great wisdom to any man who reads it. Moses sits with Mentu for hours daily listening to him tell stories of God.
The Holy Book of Hermes to Asclepius: a treatise on astrological botany describing the relationships between various plants and the decans. [ 19 ] The Fifteen Stars, Stones, Plants and Images : a treatise on astrological mineralogy and botany dealing with the effect of the stars on the pharmaceutical powers of minerals and plants.
In one case, a Book of the Dead was written on second-hand papyrus. [54] Most owners of the Book of the Dead were evidently part of the social elite; they were initially reserved for the royal family, but later papyri are found in the tombs of scribes, priests and officials. Most owners were men, and generally the vignettes included the owner's ...
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is a pseudohistorical book written by cult leader Maurice Doreal (1898–1963) and first published in the 1940s or early 1950s. [1] Influenced by ancient Egyptian texts and Lovecraftian stories about part-reptilian civilizations emerging from ancient Egypt-like ruins, it deals with Atlantis , an ...
A philosophical creation story traced to "the cosmogony of Taautus, whom Philo explicitly identifies with the Egyptian Thoth—"the first who thought of the invention of letters, and began the writing of records"—which begins with Erebus and Wind, between which Eros 'Desire' came to be [clarification needed].