Thoth is an ancient egyptian deity. 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. He was the god of the moon, wisdom, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art, and judgment. His Greek equivalent is Hermes. Thoth played many vital and prominent roles in mythology, such as maintaining the universe, and being one of the two deities (the other being Ma'at) who stood on either…