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Vol. II · Polytheism · wisdom

Thoth

Egyptian god of knowledge

ibis-headed scribe recording cosmic truths on a papyrus scroll, moon disk atop his head, hieroglyphs floating around him

Organization: Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period: c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location: Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)
Archetype: wisdom

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.