Author: Abel, R.C. & Hare, W.L.

In the earliest egyptian legends, thoth was an advocate and friend of horus, the secretary of osiris and the scribe of ra, the sun god. He is the lord of laws and literature, a magician and physician, the deity of the dead, of agriculture and the calendar. Through the writings of herodotus and plutarch he came to be identified with hermes, the messenger of zeus in greek myth, and the prime character in the hermetic drama.