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Toeth.
I think they say "thawth" in Barcelona... **
I think they say "thawth" in Barcelona... **
Mhany, ihf nhot mhost whords, vhary ihn phronhunchiachion.MikeTheAltarboy said:Those familiar with linguistics...
I've always been a Thpagetti perthon too.HudsonGray said:With a lisp--- Thoth, like Thpagetti Thoth. At least that's how I was told (and it sticks forever in the mind).
Windhorse said:Sorry, I have to put my 2.2 cents (GST incl.) into this.
5 years of studying Egyptology is finally paying off....
It is pronounced T-HOT-T.
Those familiar with linguistics, the h's are aspirated, and soften the t - they do not combine with the t to form 'th' (as in "thaw").
And technically, he is not the Egyptian God of wisdom - Thoth is the hellenised version of the ancient egyptian Tjehuty or Tjehuet. In Alexandrian times, Hellenic and Egyptian culture combined and formed a syncretistic culture that was more than the sum of its parts - thus Thoth was the deity who was an amalgam of Egyptian Tjehuty and Hellenic Hermes. In some respects, he was a considerably different deity to boh of them.
Thus of course, the true roots of Alchemism lie here in Alexandrian times.
There... I feel better now.....