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Excerpt from A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Including Their Religion, Agriculture, &C, Vol. 2: Derived From a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, With the Accounts of Ancient Authors Gods of the Second and Third Orders. Probable Names of the Twelve Gods of the Second Order; Thoth, Mercury. His Duties in Amenti and on Earth; Plato's Account of Thoth and King Thamus. (This Name recalls Thmei and Pithom); Opinion of the King of Letters. Thoth not Hermes Trismegistus. Argeiphontes. Month Thoth. Temple of Hermopolis Magna; Cynocephalus, his Emblem. Thoth the Moon or Ioh. The Moon a God, not a Goddess; Form of Thoth. Isis not the Moon. Sun and Moon sailing round the World in Boats; Titles of Thoth. The Eight Regions. Oshmoonein. The Ibis; A Sow sacrificed at the Full Moon. A Typhonian Animal; Souls of Wicked passed into Swine. Thoth the Medium of Intellectual Gifts from the Gods to Men About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.