The loss of pre-Coptic final y/j is also common. These spellings reflect known sound changes from earlier Egyptian such as the loss of ḏ palatalization and merger of ḥ with h i.e. This reconstruction is based on the Ancient Greek borrowing Thōth ( ) or Theut and the fact that the name was transliterated into Sahidic Coptic variously as ⲑⲟⲟⲩⲧ Thoout, ⲑⲱⲑ Thōth, ⲑⲟⲟⲧ Thoot, ⲑⲁⲩⲧ Thaut, Taautos ( Τααυτος), Thoor ( Θωωρ), as well as Bohairic Coptic ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ Thōout. The Egyptian pronunciation of ḏḥwty is not fully known, but may be reconstructed as * ḏiḥautī, perhaps pronounced * or *. Name Thoout, Thoth Deux fois Grand, le Second Hermés, N372.2A, Brooklyn Museum In the later history of ancient Egypt, Thoth became heavily associated with the arbitration of godly disputes, the arts of magic, the system of writing, and the judgment of the dead. Thoth played many vital and prominent roles in Egyptian mythology, such as maintaining the universe, and being one of the two deities (the other being Ma'at) who stood on either side of Ra's solar barque. Its very large pronaos was still standing in 1826, but was demolished and used as fill for the foundation of a sugar factory by the mid-19th century. Later known as el-Ashmunein in Egyptian Arabic, the Temple of Thoth was mostly destroyed before the beginning of the Christian era. Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Hermopolis ( Ancient Egyptian: ḫmnw /χaˈmaːnaw/, Egyptological pronunciation: "Khemenu", Coptic: Ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ Shmun). He was the god of the moon, wisdom, knowledge, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art and judgment. His feminine counterpart was Seshat, and his wife was Ma'at. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. Thoth ( / θ oʊ θ, t oʊ t/ from Koinē Greek: Θώθ Thṓth, borrowed from Coptic: Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ Thōout, Egyptian: Ḏḥwtj, the reflex of ḏḥwtj " is like the Ibis") is an ancient Egyptian deity. Ibis, moon disk, papyrus scroll, reed pens, writing palette, stylus, baboon, scales Thoth, in one of his forms as an ibis-headed man
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