Djehuty Quotes

He raised an eyebrow. "You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called--" I [Sadie] stifled a laugh. "Ja-hooty?" Thoth looked offended. "In Ancient Egyptian, it's a perfectly fine name. The Greeks called me Thoth. Then later they confused me with their god Hermes. Even had the nerve to rename my sacred city Hermopolis, though we're nothing alike. Believe me, if you've ever met Hermes--

Greta Helsing," said Djehuty. "Your heart does not rise up against you as a witness, nor does it make opposition against you in the presence of the keeper of the balance.

The first is what is known as the Corpus Hermeticum, named for Hermes, under whose name many of the treatises were circulated, due to His syncretic association with the Egyptian God Djehuty, or ‘Thoth’, as His name was transliterated in Greek. Plato had already known this God, and refers to Him in the Phaedrus (274c) not as Hermes, but under His Egyptian name, as best he can sound it out: ‘Theuth’.