Book of Thoth

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Book of Thoth is a name given to many ancient Egyptian texts attributed to Thoth, the Egyptian god of writing and knowledge. They include many texts that were mentioned by ancient authors including a magical book that appears in an ancient Egyptian story. In ancient Egypt, all books were considered to have been written by Thoth because of his role as the god of writing. Iamblichus explained that it was only natural that Egyptian priests should attribute all their writings to Thoth as homage for his being the source of all knowledge. For this reason Thoth is considered the author of The Book Of Coming Forth By Day also known as The Book Of The Dead. The Book of Thoth is mentioned in the oldest inscription on the sarcophagus of the Imamy with a quote from chapter 68 of the "Book of the Dead", as well as on the sarcophagus of Sobek.: "You (Imamy) are sitting under the branches of a fig tree near Hathor in front of a wide sun disk when she goes to Heleopolis, with the writing of the word of...

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