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Thoth |
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Egyptian Myth |
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Egyptian Myth |
Origin[]
Thoth is an ancient Egyptian deity. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat, and his wife was Ma'at. He was the god of the Moon, wisdom, knowledge, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art and judgment.
hoth played many vital and prominent roles in Egyptian mythology, such as maintaining the universe, and being one of the two deities (the other being Ma'at) who stood on either side of Ra's solar barque. In the later history of ancient Egypt, Thoth became heavily associated with the arbitration of godly disputes, the arts of magic, the system of writing, and the judgment of the dead.
Public Domain Appearances[]
All published appearances of Thoth before Janurary 1, 1929 are public domain in the US.
Some notable appearances are listed below:
Public Domain Literary Appearances[]
- Thoth: A Romance (1888)
- Egyptian Religion (1900)
- The Gods of the Egyptians Volume 1-2 (1904)
Public Domain Comic Appearances[]
- Ibis the Invincible #5:In the Devil's Ibistick, Beezlebub attempted to find the second Ibistick to defeat Ibis the Invincible. After using magic to view when Ibis first received his powers, He discovered that the stick was in a mummy's sarcophagus. Ibis arrived to stop him and the to fight and the demon used the stick's magic to protect his devils from Ibis. However then Thoth's statue comes to life and punished Beelzebub for using the Ibistick for evil purposes.
- Whiz Comics #17: Ibis summons the Egyptian god of wisdom to help him locate Tommy who had been kidnapped by Trug and the Man of the Mountain.
- Master Comics #41: Captain Marvel Jr. encounters the Greek sculptor Pygmalion who had prayed to Aphrodite change his female sculpture into the living woman named Galatea. In this version, Pygmalion was given the power to bring the inanimate to life by the gods and he eventually turned himself into a statue and was placed into a museum. He suddenly awakened one day and began to bring the other statues as well fossils and taxidermy to life including statues of Neptune and Thoth as well as saber-tooth tiger, a gorilla, and a brontosaurus.
Public Domain Comic Appearances Inspired by Thoth[]
- Jungle Comics #11: Camilla is kidnapped by the sorcerer Thoth. Warlock, the city's wiseman, sends Champion with a magic sword and shield to rescue her.
Notes[]
- H. P. Lovecraft also used the word "Thoth" as the basis for his alien god, "Yog-Sothoth", an entity associated with sorcery and esoteric knowledge.