Thoth - The Magus

MystiqueMoonlight

Isthmus Nekoi -

I am interested in your phrase "..... the wicked Mr Crowley..." could you explain what you mean?

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isthmus nekoi

:) I was refering to Crowley's reputation in the English press as the most evil man alive, but of course there's the pun. I haven't read very much about Crowley, so I know very little about the man except that he made a damn good tarot deck, as well as having connections w/Andrew Danger who has made many a fine film....
 

Richard1

Personally, I leave all three Magi in my deck...no more than one has ever shown up in a reading, but Mercury's so fast I wouldn't be surprised to find him in two places at once. They all seem to have different "energies," but I'm at a loss on how to put it into words.
About the primary one - I think one very important thing about him is that he's on tiptoe. The Fool was falling (or floating) in empty space, but the Magus has at least a bit of ground to work with. I also think the snakes around his head form a vertical infinity symbol (all three Magi have it...the most obvious is the eight-armed one, but the wings above the Egyptian-looking one also form one).
I also wonder about this Harald Schulze-Theiler mentioned in the Banzhaf/Akron book...I can't find a reference to him anywhere online, but I'm fascinated by the idea of two "invisible" cards. The explanation they provide involves most number systems being based on 24 (?) of which 10% is often invisible (??). It made no sense to me whatsoever, but I'm wondering if the two extra cards couldn't perhaps be paths to and from Daath, the phantom Sephiroth?
 

coldsuns

I just saw that there is something on the Magus' leg to toe. Is it for decoration?? And there is an animal on the right. What is it??
 

Richard1

The things on his legs are wings, since he's Mercury. Since he's also Thoth, he has the Cynocephelus (sp?) Ape (or, if you prefer Hindu religion, it's Hanuman) with him.
 

coldsuns

I see..but what does Thoth means?
 

Pollux

Maybe Thoth is a god of the Egyptian pantheon; but I am not so sure... :confused:
 

coldsuns

I see..but i hope to know more about the word "Thoth". What language is it? Where is it from? And so on..
 

Macavity

Thoth is the Greek version (as indeed are most common names) of the Ibis God of Wisdom/Magic etc. whom the Ancient Egyptians (probably) called "Djehuti"? Of course we don't know EXACTLY how they said that word, 'cos Ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) was another language - like Hebrew, where only the consonants were written - in Hieroglyphs.

There are a LOT of links to such information on the Web... try a search on some above terms and you will find... MANY :D Lemmesee:

http://www.kemet.org/home.html

http://www.touregypt.net/

and perhaps the one with almost every link known to man or the gods... http://www.egyptology.com/reeder/ :)

Macavity
 

coldsuns

Thanks alot for your great informations. I have always wonder what is Thoth..not anymore now ^_^