Doing some reading  today about Egypt – for Book 3 of the Daughters of the Wind series. I came  across this little bit of information about the Egyptian god Throth and found it interesting…

The god Thoth was worshiped in the form of an Ibis, and is often shown in human form with the unusual head of that bird.
Thoth was primarily thought to be the god of wisdom. He was patron of arts and science and also the patron god of scribes. He was the inventor of the words of god, or Hieroglyphs.

Thoth is particularly familiar from the famous judgment scene shown in the Book of the Dead, Here the heart of the deceased was tested for purity by weighing it against the feather of the goddess Maat, symbolising truth. If the heart failed the test it was thrown to the ‘Eater of Souls’

Originally named Tehuti by the Egyptians, Thoth was given his better known name by the Greeks. They linked him with their god Hermes, and like Hermes, he was considered to be the god of wisdom, writing and invention. He was also the messenger and spokesman of the gods and finally the lord of the moon. He is represented as a man with the head of an ibis, which is often crowned by the crescent moon supporting the full moon disk. He often holds a writing palette. Thoth invented the arts and sciences, music, and magic, and was the god of learning, but above all, he was the creator of hieroglyphs, and was known as “the lord of holy words”.