Thoth, the Egyptian Hermes or Mercury, the mythical inventor of the arts and sciences, music and astronomy, and especially of speech and hieroglyphs or letters, over which he was supposed to preside. See EGYPT, Vol. IV. p. 235.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 187
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