Thoth & the Martian Canal Thoth - San Jose, CA - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

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) ... 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."

The canal Thoth is mentioned on Wikipedia's list of Martian canals (visit link)

"Thoth '??? From the name of the Egyptian god Thoth"

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