Thoth or Tehuti

IMG:file86.png: One of the principal gods of Egypt, whose cult was le confined to one particular district than that of almost any other god. His name signifies "the measurer," and as such he is a lunar deity and wears the lunar crescent and disk. Two animals are especially sacred to him, the ibis and the cynocephalus. Sometimes the god is represented as an ibis, but most frequently he appears in human form with the head of that bird surmounted by the crescent and disk, and carrying either a palette and pen, or the notched palm branch. He is always found in the judgment scenes, where he records on his palette the result of the weighing of the heart of the deceased. He was the inventor of all the exact sciences, letters, learning and the fine arts. He wrote the sacred books and had as great knowledge of magic as Isis. The Greeks identified him with Hermes. (See Hermes Trismegistos .)