The Book of Djehuti
The Egyptian Diety Djehuti ( dhwty ) is known also by other names: Thoth, A'an and Hermes (Greek). He was the God of Knowledge, the Moon, Wisdom, the Alphabet, Records, Measurement, Thought, Intelligence, the Mind, Logic, Reason, Reading, Magic, Secrets, Meditation and Writing. According to the Egyptian historian Manetho (3rd century BC) Djehuti was the creator of writing, and his son, Hermes Trismagestus, the inventor of the Hieroglyphs. This Hermes Trismagestus is the alleged author of a mysterious alchemical text known as The Emerald Tablet . The ancient Egyptians were well advanced in alchemy; a Greek Christian historian, Eusebius of Ceasarea (3rd century AD) wrote: The Egyptians say that Isis and Osiris are the Moon and the Sun ; that Zeus is the name which they gave to the all-pervading sprit, Hephaestus of fire and Demeter to earth. Among the Egyptians the moist element is named Ocean and their own River Nile; and to him they ascribed the origin of the Gods. To Air,...