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| A fine Thoth baboon, British Museum |
In a myth that anticipates the Arabian Nights, Thoth was sent into the desert in the form of baboon to try to locate the goddess Hathor and lure her back home with him. It seems the rampaging Destroyer of Humankind and Goddess of Love, had thrown a huff like a desert dust storm and turned her back on Egypt, loping off into the desert. How did Thoth win her back without being devoured? The little trickster spun the lioness a string of stories, like Sheherazade, drawing her step by step across the desert, charming her all the way home to Mother Nile...
