. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 16. Thout,THE Scribe Thout in BaboonForm as Moon-God andScribe of the Gods XII 34 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY baboon appears not only as a special friend of the sun-god(p. 32), but also as the deity of wisdom, the patron of scribes and scholars.^ Thout is sometimes de-picted as sailing, like the sun, across theheavenly ocean in a ship. Originally, likethe hawk-gods Re and Horus, he wasthought to fly over the sky in his old bird-form as a white ibis. During the period of the Middle Empire^also Kh6ns(u), the least important mem-ber of the Theban triad (Ch. I, Note 6
. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 16. Thout,THE Scribe Thout in BaboonForm as Moon-God andScribe of the Gods XII 34 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY baboon appears not only as a special friend of the sun-god(p. 32), but also as the deity of wisdom, the patron of scribes and scholars.^ Thout is sometimes de-picted as sailing, like the sun, across theheavenly ocean in a ship. Originally, likethe hawk-gods Re and Horus, he wasthought to fly over the sky in his old bird-form as a white ibis. During the period of the Middle Empire^also Kh6ns(u), the least important mem-ber of the Theban triad (Ch. I, Note 6), as-sumed the character of a moon-god becausethe union of Amen-Re* as the sun withMut as the sky led to the theory that themoon was their child.^ He is usually re-presented in human form, wearing a side-lock to indicate youth; but later, like Horus,he sometimes has the head of a hawk andalso appears very much like Ptah; althoughhe is frequently equated with Thout, anibis-head for him is rare. A symbol, some-times identified wit
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