#Satanic [[Egyptian Book of the Dead]] [[Thoth, God of Learning, Writing & Reckoning]] **Hermes Trismegistus**, the Greek name applied to the [Egyptian god](https://www.britannica.com/topic/ancient-Egyptian-religion/The-Gods#ref68286) [Thoth](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Thoth) as the reputed author or source of the [Hermetic writings](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hermetic-writings), works of [revelation](https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/revelation) on [[Occult]] subjects and #theology Thoth was the scribe of the gods, the inventor of [writing](https://www.britannica.com/topic/writing), and the patron of all the #arts dependent on #writing, including #medicine, #astronomy, and #magic At least as early as [Herodotus](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian), Greeks had identified him with their god [Hermes](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hermes-Greek-mythology), and by the 3rd century bce the identification was official. On the [[Rosetta Stone (196 BCE)]]  Hermes “the great, the great” is evidently Thoth. The epithet Trismegistus (Greek: “thrice-greatest”) occurs only rarely outside the #Hermetic texts. It represents a development from the Egyptian _aa aa_ (“great, great”; that is, “greatest”), which is found as an [epithet](https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/epithet) of Thoth in late [hieroglyphics](https://www.britannica.com/topic/hieroglyphic-writing).