Thoth - San Jose, CA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Metro2
N 37° 20.008 W 121° 55.376
10S E 595414 N 4132409
This sculpture is in San Jose's San Jose's Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.
Waymark Code: WMN6ND
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 01/05/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Dorcadion Team
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The Museum placard accompanying this statue indicates that it is a bronze work from the 26th dynasty (666-525 B.C.).
The work depicts the god standing with an elaborate headdress which features a bird and what appears to be a globe. The figure is standing and posed as if taking a step.
Wikipedia (visit link) adds:

"Thoth ... was one of the deities of the Egyptian pantheon. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat, and his wife was Ma'at.

Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Khmun, later called Hermopolis Magna during the Greco-Roman era (in reference to him through the Greeks' interpretation that he was the same as their god Hermes) and ???????? shmounein in the Coptic rendering. In that city, he led the Ogdoad pantheon of eight principal deities. He also had numerous shrines within the cities of Abydos, Hesert, Urit, Per-Ab, Rekhui, Ta-ur, Sep, Hat, Pselket, Talmsis, Antcha-Mutet, Bah, Amen-heri-ab, and Ta-kens.

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 boat. 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, the development of science, and the judgment of the dead."
Associated Religion(s): Egyptian

Statue Location: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose

Entrance Fee: 9

Artist: unknown

Website: [Web Link]

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