Thoth as a dog-faced baboon, 'Mighty in his Wonderworking Formulae'
A fine statue of Thoth, British Museum
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'Most
forbidden and powerful of all is a scroll called the Book of Thoth, a work of
frightening thaumaturgy said to have been composed by the Lord of Divine Words
himself, the god symbolised by an ibis, or by a cynocephalus baboon, ‘Mighty in
his Wonderworking Formulae’.'