Thoth (Tehuti; Hermes; Enoch; The Thrice Born) Neter of Wisdom . His consort is often said to be Maat (Netert of Cosmic Order / Balance)

The Books of the Pyramids refer to him as the oldest son of Ra. His feats of magic and healing, usually achieved through the power of his voice (the word), and his teaching of the arts, sciences, arithmetic, sacred geometry, surveying, astronomy, magic/ medicine, surgery, music and writing are well recorded.

The pyramid texts indicate that he was regarded as a divinity who was self begotten and self produced; that he was One. He made calculations concerning the establishment of the heavens and the stars and the earth. He was the master of law both in its physical and moral conceptions, and that he had the knowledge of divine speech. Thoth was the Lord of Books and Scribe of the Divine.

The scribe of the Egyptian gods. The chief deity of Khmun, or Hermo-polis, was conceived as having either the head of an ibis or of a bamboo. In early times Thoth had been a creator god, but from the second half of the third millennium BC he was credited with the foundation of law, the advancement of learning, and the invention of hieroglyphic writing. The modern pack of playing-cards, held by some to be an adaptation of hieroglyphics, is sometimes called‘ the book of Thoth’

From his studies Thoth acquired mastery of heka, ‘magic’. The creation myth of Khmun tells how the god of wisdom, self-created, uttered words which sprang into life:‘they were clothed with being’. This myth had particular appeal to later magicians and thaumaturgists. An interesting variant of the Khmun cosmology was the lotus flower that arose from the primeval waters, opened, and revealed the beautiful child creator of the world, the infant sun.

Egyptologists disagree on Thoth's nature depending upon their view of the Egyptian pantheon. Most egyptologists today side with Sir Flinders Petrie that Egyptian religion was strictly polytheistic, in which Thoth would be a separate god. His contemporary adversary, E. A. Wallis Budge, however, thought Egyptian religion to be primarily monotheistic where all the gods and goddesses were aspects of the God Ra, similar to the Trinity in Christianity and devas in Hinduism. In this view, Thoth would be the aspect of Ra which the Egyptian mind would relate to the heart and tongue.

His roles in Egyptian mythology were many. Thoth served as a mediating power, especially between good and evil, making sure neither had a decisive victory over the other. He also served as scribe of the gods, credited with the invention of writing and alphabets (ie. hieroglyphs) themselves. In the underworld, Duat, he appeared as an ape, A'an, the god of equilibrium, who reported when the scales weighing the deceased's heart against the feather, representing the principle of Ma'at, was exactly even.