Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus (274 c/d):
“I heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis (intentionally pronounced to draw "Iblis" parallels), and the name of the god himself was Theuth (Thoth). He it was who invented numbers and arithmetic and geometry and astronomy, also draughts and dice, and, most important of all, letters.”
“The Tau, the T, is the emblem of Mercury, of Hermes.
It is the crux ansata (the ankh), and the crux Hermis.
The Tau is the Thoth." - Myths Traced to their Primary Source Through Language, Volume 2 by Morgan Peter Kavanagh (1856)
"Osiris's father the Earth God married his sister the Sky Goddess without the permission of the Sun God. The Sun God was so angry at them for this that he forced their father to divide them. And this is why the earth is divided from the sky. Then, the Sun God prevented Nut from having children in any month of the year.
Thoth however, convinced the moon to play a game of draughts with him, where the prize would be the moon's light. And Thoth won so much of that light that the Moon had to add five new days to the calendar, and therefore the Sky Goddess and the Earth God could finally have their four children: Asaar, Isis, Seth and Nephthys." - The Book of Fire - Vol. I, Jeremy Garner
Asaar
Isis
Seth
Nephthys
"All good and noble gifts, even the attributes of the high Gods themselves, are accessible to our Understanding, and nothing is withheld from our intelligence, if we have the skill to seek aright. HERMES is the opener of the gates of the highest heaven, the revealer of spiritual light and life, the Mediator between the inner and outer spheres of existence. He is the Initiator into those sacred mysteries, the knowledge of which is life eternal." - Anna Kingsford, Virgin of the World of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (1885)
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