Tahuti or Thoth
The Original God of Measurement
Tahuti, God of Measurement
Tahuti, also known as Thoth and often associated with the god Hermes, is the forefather of all philosophers, Visionaries and prophets.
What we know
Tahuti, also known as Thoth and often associated with the god Hermes, is the forefather of all philosophers. The old kingdom ancient Egyptian God of measurement, of cognition, science, of mathematics, of writing, of magic and and of numbers of other disciplines, is the personification of the ideal thinker.
It’s is important to take into consideration the conditions under which or prior to which, he was created. Consider for a moment how many businesses have been created base on the premise that pyramids must have be created to some superior or alien life form.
It is hypothesized that the pyramids were built some 6000 years ago, but they are still a shocking site for today’s visitors.
Taking the example of the Italian golden renaissances, where massive technological advancement and magnificent works were being created, the path to those achievements originated with new and useful discoveries of principles.
Not much thought is given to the philosophy that inspired the greatest of achievement of dynastic Egypt, quite likely to our detriment as big ideas are prerequisites for great achievements.
An explicit articulation how ancient ideas evolved we do have, The Coming Forth By Day and by Night also known as The Egyptian Book of the Dead, and within it we have a evidence of a fundamental philosophy.
The Principles of Ideal Judgment
The universe is lawful.
The forms we observe are reflections of that lawfulness with a tendency toward it.
All lawful change must reflect a tendency toward the forms which themselves reflect universal lawfulness.
The Archetypal philosopher
It is interesting to note, that the Old Kingdom Egyptians saw the measuring of the soul of a person implicitly and of the Pharaoh explicitly was in the domain of science. Also, it took a special kind of scientist.
It would take one who is a master of not only measurement, but of thinking, of mathematics, of writing and of magic. Tahuti governs all things mysterious, but in each case there is a hidden principle or principles, governing the process.
The masters of the craft use these principles willfully and with understanding, while ignorant observers look on dumbfounded. The greatest power was then and is still today, in understanding and in the ability it gives you to make better judgements.
The Old Kingdom society was necessarily driven by the principle demonstrated in Plato’s dialogue of Meno, that principles of understanding were not only discoverable, but teachable. The Old Kingdom Egyptian education system took forty years to complete.
Clearly, the amount of time committed to teaching prospective priests is evidence of Old Kingdom’s conviction that humanity has within it the ability to discover ideas or principles and to teach them to others.
Now if Tahuti is the personification of the ideal thinker, what kind of apparatus would he design to test the virtue of a person? Likely, they would have bring all their powers of understanding to bare on the process. But what would be the result?
To answer this question we must return to organization of Weighing of the Heart ceremony. A careful observance of the depictions of the Weighing of the Heart ceremony provides three thought object to consider.
First, we have the Nubian ostrich Feather of Truth. Second, we have the heart being measured. And third, we have the principle of understanding that connects them.
The Archetypal prophet
Tahuti also known as Thoth, was not only the archetype of the ideal thinker, but was also the forefather of the concept of prophet-hood. His holy land is Abydos and his actions are sanctioned by the sun Sun by way of God Ra.
His kinsmen are the resurrected Lord of Lords Osiris and the crucified savior Horus. To each of them on separate occasions he proclaims, I am thy kinsman.
The Book of the Dead Tahuti as a Promethean character, but instead of giving fire humanity generally he lends his mental powers to the righteous of among nobles.
“It is Thoth, the everlasting King, who is here. I am the great god in the Bark, who have fought for thee. I am one of those gods, the Powers who effect the triumph of Osiris over his adversaries on the day of the Weighing of the Words : I am thy kinsman, Osiris. I am one of those gods to whom Nut hath given birth, who slay the adversaries of Osiris and imprison the Sebau, on his behalf: I am thy kinsman, Horus. I have fought for thee, and have prevailed for thy name.”
“I am Thoth who effect the triumph of Osiris over his adversaries on that day of Weighing of the Words in the House of the Prince, which is in Heliopolis. I am Tatti, the son of Tatti, conceived in Tattu and born in Tattu ; and Tattu is my name. I am with the mourners and weepers who wail over Osiris in Rechit, and who effect the triumph of Osiris over his adversaries. Ra issued the mandate to Thoth, that he should effect the triumph of Osiris against his adversaries, and the mandate is what Thoth hath executed. ”
“I am with Horus on the day of covering Teshtesh and of opening the fountains for the refreshment of the god whose heart is motionless, and closing the entrance to the hidden things in Restau. I am with Horus, as the avenger of that left arm of Osiris which is in Sechem. ”
“I enter in, and I come forth from the Tank of Flame on the day when the adversaries are annihilated at Sechem. I am with Horus on the day when the festivals of Osiris are celebrated, and when offerings are made [to Ra], on the Feast of the Sixth day of the Month, and on the Feast of Tenait in Heliopolis. I am the Priest in Tattu and exalt him who is on the Height. ”
“I am the Prophet in Abydos on the day when the earth is raised. I am he who seeth what is shut up at Restau. I am he who reciteth the liturgies of the Soul who is Lord of Tattu. I am the Sem-priest in all that pertaineth to his office. I am the Arch-Craftsman, on the day in which the Ship of Sokaru is laid upon its stocks.”