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==Origin== | ==Origin== | ||
Hermes, the Greek god of interpretive communication, was combined with Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom. Greeks in the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt recognized the equivalence of Hermes and Thoth through the ''interpretatio graeca'. Consequently, the two gods were worshiped as one, in what had been the Temple of Thoth in Khemenu, which was known in the Hellenistic period as Hermopolis. | Hermes, the Greek god of interpretive communication, was combined with Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom. Greeks in the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt recognized the equivalence of Hermes and Thoth through the ''interpretatio graeca''. Consequently, the two gods were worshiped as one, in what had been the Temple of Thoth in Khemenu, which was known in the Hellenistic period as Hermopolis. | ||
The Egyptian priest and polymath Imhotep had been deified long after his death and therefore assimilated to Thoth in the classical and Hellenistic periods. The renowned scribe Amenhotep and a wise man named Teôs were coequal deities of wisdom, science, and medicine; and, thus, they were placed alongside Imhotep in shrines dedicated to Thoth–Hermes during the Ptolemaic Kingdom. | The Egyptian priest and polymath Imhotep had been deified long after his death and therefore assimilated to Thoth in the classical and Hellenistic periods. The renowned scribe Amenhotep and a wise man named Teôs were coequal deities of wisdom, science, and medicine; and, thus, they were placed alongside Imhotep in shrines dedicated to Thoth–Hermes during the Ptolemaic Kingdom. | ||