Thoth · Chapter 1 of 7
The Ibis and the Baboon
Two forms · Khemenu · A name from a bird
One shape for the writing. One for the noise at dawn.
Egyptian tradition gave Thoth two bodies and left the reason to us. The ibis, wading the flood-margin with a long curved bill, is the form his own name may come from — one proposed reading of Djehuty is simply the one who is like the ibis. The other is a baboon, sitting upright, the animal that screams at the edge of the desert as the sun comes up. His city, Khemenu, means something like Eight-Town, after the eight primordial figures worshipped there; Greek speakers renamed it Hermopolis when they decided he was Hermes.
- Ibis and baboon
- The flood margin
- A town called Eight
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