Thoth - Egyptian God of Magic and Wisdom

The mask of the plague doctor - the bird beak and the leather hat - was supposed to make a person look like an Egyptian divinity to scare off the disease

 Thoth was known as the tongue of Ra, who had cursed him, and often spoke on Ra's behalf. Because his job was to speak the words that fulfilled Ra's wishes, Thoth is credited with creating the heavens and earth.
Thoth managed to create himself by using the power of magical language. He is known as the creator of magic and the messenger of the gods. Thoth is also referred to in some stories as the keeper of divine records, advisor to the gods, and mediator in disputes. He appears in a few legends as the god who weighs the souls of the dead,

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In the Old Kingdom (2675–2170 B.C.E. ) the Egyptians regarded the god Thoth as a violent deity who helped the king defeat enemies. But in the Middle Kingdom (2008–1630 B.C.E. ) the Egyptians identified Thoth as the author of The Book of the Two Ways , a text that described the afterlife. All preserved copies of this text come from the town of Hermopolis in central Egypt. There the local deity was Thoth and thus he received credit for this first statement of knowledge of the next life. The Coffin Texts —spells inscribed on Middle Kingdom coffins—refer to the “divine books of Thoth” and to this god as the “lord of wisdom.” In the New Kingdom (1539–1075 B.C.E. ) Thoth continued to develop as a god of culture and invention. The Egyptians regarded Thoth as the author of many sacred writings. In the Book of the Dead —spells meant to guide the deceased to the next life—the deceased identified himself with Thoth and claimed that knowledge justified his entrance to the afterlife. Thoth was regularly the other gods’ scribe, responsible for divine documents, letters, and decrees. The Egyptians now described Thoth as “lord of divine words,” that is, the hieroglyphic writing system. Thoth became responsible for regulating the calendar and measuring time. At the judgment of the dead, Thoth recorded the final verdict for each individual. In general, Thoth was increasingly viewed as the god who controlled knowledge and the recording of knowledge, and hence was also the ruler of philosophy.

Thoth and Egyptian Mythology:

The parents of Thoth are said to be the male homosexual pair or "two combatants" Horus and Seth. He is also described as the son of Ra (Re).

• After Osiris is killed, Thoth helps Horus and Anubis in putting him back together again.
• Thoth is credited with bringing a young Horus back to life after a fatal scorpion sting.
• He also helps Horus by finding his eye.
• After Horus decapitates Isis, Thoth reattaches the head.

She asked him for magic that could bring Osiris back to life
She then went to Thoth who knows all secrets, and implored his help. She asked him for magic that could bring Osiris back to life. Thoth, lord of knowledge, who brought himself into being by speaking his name, searched through his magic. He knew that Osiris' spirit had departed his body and was lost. To restore Osiris, Thoth had to remake him so that his spirit would recognize him and rejoin. Thoth and Isis together created the Ritual of Life, that which allows us to live forever when we die. But before Thoth could work the magic, cruel Seth discovered them. He stole the body of Osiris and tore it into 14 pieces, scattering them throughout Egypt. He was sure that Osiris would never be reborn.
Yet Isis would not despair. She implored the help of her sister Nephthys, kind Nephthys, to guide her and help her find the pieces of Osiris. Long did they search, bringing each piece to Thoth that he might work magic upon it. When all the pieces were together, Thoth went to Anubis, lord of the dead. Anubis sewed the pieces back together, washed the entrails of Osiris, embalmed him wrapped him in linen, and cast the Ritual of Life. When Osiris' mouth was opened, his spirit reentered him and he lived again

The Emerald Tablets Of Thoth
Thoth ruled over ancient Egypt. He instituted record keeping and founded the science of mathematics, astronomy and medicine. Invented hieroglyphics and wrote The Book of Breathings which teaches humans how to become gods. Thoth also figured under the name of Agathodaimon, The Good Spirit, and in an ancient Egyptian papyrus he is said to be the one god without parents who precedes all others and whose creative willpower fashions reality. That is some pretty amazing qualities for any real individual or allegory!

Supposedly Thoth wrote down the essence of his knowledge on a tablet engraved on green emerald stone, hence its name the Emerald Tablet. It also figures under the names the Smaragdine Table of Hermes, or Tabula Smaragdina.

is there a connection between the emerald tablets of thoth to the emerald city from the wizard of oz

The plague doctor ~ Video

Behind the Mask: The Plague Doctor

It is an image that many recognise but most know nothing about. The plague mask—with its elongated beak and dark, soulless eyes—has been replicated in costume shops around the world [see left]. Indeed, so prevalent are these masks at parties and balls, one might be tempted to think it is a design entirely imagined by Italian mask-makers for the Venetian Carnival. But where did this mask originate and what purpose did it serve during plague outbreaks?



A plague doctor would have worn a beak doctor costume in his role as a specialized doctor. He was known then as a “Beak Doctor”. The protective suit consisted of a heavy fabric overcoat that was waxed, a mask of glassed eye openings and a cone shaped like a beak to hold scented substances. Some of the scented materials were amber, balm-mint leaves, camphor, cloves, laudanum, myrrh, rose petals, and storax.A wooden cane pointer was used to help examine the patient without touching

A wide-brimmed black hat worn close to the head. At the time, a wide-brimmed black hat would have been identified a person as a doctor, much the same as how nowadays a hat may identify chefs, soldiers, and workers. The wide-brimmed hat may have also been used as partial shielding from infection.

A primitive gas mask in the shape of a bird’s beak. A common belief at the time was that the plague was spread by birds. There may have been a belief that by dressing in a bird-like mask, the wearer could draw the plague away from the patient and onto the garment the plague doctor wore. The mask also included red glass eyepieces, which were thought to make the wearer impervious to evil. The beak of the mask was often filled with strongly aromatic herbs and spices to overpower the miasmas or “bad air” which was also thought to carry the plague. At the very least, it may have dulled the smell of unburied corpses, sputum, and ruptured bouboules in plague victims

A long, black overcoat. The overcoat worn by the plague doctor was tucked in behind the beak mask at the neckline to minimize skin exposure. It extended to the feet, and was often coated head to toe in suet or wax. A coating of suet may have been used with the thought that the plague could be drawn away from the flesh of the infected victim and either trapped by the suet, or repelled by the wax. The coating of wax likely served as protection against respiratory droplet contamination, but it was not known at the time if coughing carried the plague. It was likely that the overcoat was waxed to simply prevent sputum or other bodily fluids from clinging to it.











A wooden cane. The cane was used to both direct family members to move the patient, other individuals nearby, and possibly to examine patients without directly touching them

It is not known how often or widespread plague doctors were, or how effective they were in treatment of the disease. It is likely that while the plague doctor's clothing offered some protection to the wearer, the plague doctors themselves may have actually contributed more to the spreading of the disease than its treatment,in that the plague doctor unknowingly served as a vector for infected fleas to move from host to host
Plague doctors could not generally interact with the general public because of the nature of their business and the possiblility of spreading the disease

The mask of the plague doctor - the bird beak and the leather hat - was supposed to make a person look like an Egyptian divinity to scare off the disease

The Black Death Plague Doctor

The plague presented itself in three interrelated forms. The bubonic variant (the most common) derives its name from the swellings or buboes that appeared on a victim's neck, armpits or groin. These tumors could range in size from that of an egg to that of an apple. Although some survived

The Plague's Progress

the painful ordeal, the manifestation of these lesions usually signaled the victim had a life expectancy of up to a week. Infected fleas that attached themselves to rats and then to humans spread this bubonic type of the plague. A second variation - pneumonic plague - attacked the respiratory system and was spread by merely breathing the exhaled air of a victim. It was much more virulent than its bubonic cousin - life expectancy was measured in one or two days. Finally, the septicemic version of the disease attacked the blood system

No doctor's advice, no medicine could overcome or alleviate this disease, An enormous number of ignorant men and women set up as doctors in addition to those who were trained. Either the disease was such that no treatment was possible or the doctors were so ignorant that they did not know what caused it, and consequently could not administer the proper remedy. In any case very few recovered; most people died within about three days of the appearance of the tumours described above, most of them without any fever or other symptoms

During the period of the Black Death and the Great Plague of London, plague doctors visited victims of the plague.

A plague doctor's duties were often limited to visiting victims to verify whether they had been afflicted or not. Most urban plague doctors were essentially volunteers, since the real doctors would have fled to the countryside, knowing they could do nothing for those affected

What I am about to say is incredible to hear, and if I and others had not witnessed it with our own eyes, I should not dare believe it (let alone write about it), no matter how trustworthy a person I might have heard it from

This pestilence was so powerful that it was communicated to the healthy by contact with the sick, the way a fire close to dry or oily things will set them aflame. And the evil of the plague went even further: not only did talking to or being around the sick bring infection and a common death, but also touching the clothes of the sick or anything touched or used by them seemed to communicate this very disease in the person involved.

It swallowed up many of the good things of civilization and wiped them out...Civilization decreased with the decrease of mankind. Cities and buildings were laid waste. Roads and way signs were obliterated, settlements and mansions became empty, dynasties and tribes grew weak. The entire inhabited world changed...It was as if the voice of existence in the world had called out for oblivion and restriction, and the world responded to its call.

As the graveyards did not suffice, fields were chosen for the burial of the dead...A countless number of common people and a host of monks and nuns and clerics as well, known to God alone, passed away

Hysterical people, of course, do not think clearly. Jews were getting sick less frequently because they lived apart from the rest of the population. But, as Boccaccio points out in the Decameron's Introduction, other people were living apart too. And they were still getting sick. Why not the Jews?

On Valentine's Day, 1349, about 2,000 Jews were massacred in Strasbourg. (Six hundred years later, Jews were killed in Strasbourg again - this time by the Nazis.) The town council had resisted arresting them. What proof did anyone have of Jewish "evil" doings? But the town council was "deposed," on February 9-10, clearing the way for massive arrests on Friday the 13th.

On Saturday - that was St. Valentine's Day - they burnt the Jews on a wooden platform in their cemetery.

Nostradamus was most famous Plague Doctor during Black Death years

Michel de Nostredame was probably the most renowned Plague Doctor – he is widely known as Nostradamus. He recommended his patients to drink only boiled water, to sleep in clean beds and to leave infected towns as soon as it was possible.

Nostradamus can indisputably be said to have been ahead of his time, at least in terms of medical practice. His treatment of the Black Death involved removal of the infected corpses, fresh air and unpolluted water for the healthy, a herbal preparation rich in Vitamin C, and (in contravention of contemporary medical practise) not bleeding his patients.
 Nostradamus was successful in lessening the impact of the Black Death in the capital of Provence, Aix. The grateful citizens gave him a stipend for life.

Nostradamus is said to have predicted his own death. When his assistant wished him goodnight on July 1, 1566, Nostradamus reputedly pronounced, "You will not find me alive at sunrise." He was found dead on July 2, 1566.

Nostradamus was interred standing upright in the Church of the Cordeliers of Salon. However, his story does not end there

The man who opens the tomb when it is found
And who does not close it immediately,
Evil will come to him
That no one will be able to prove.

Reputedly, the soldiers who desecrated his tomb for the final time were ambushed on their way back to base and killed to the last man.

The Plague Doctor

Michel de Nostredame, known as Nostradamus, was a renowned plague doctor during Black Death Years,  who’s visions were ahead of his time. The costume of the Plague Doctor was used to terrify people. A person dressed as the Plague Doctor was an unmistakable sign of imminent death. The first epidemic of the plague dates back to the 6^th century. Breaking out in Eastern Roman Empire under Emperor Justinian’s rule.  The emperor died of the plague himself, and the epidemic became known as Plague of Justinian. The largest epidemic of the deadly disease, the Black Death took place between 1348-1351, arrived in Europe from the East. The plague was spread all over Europe very quickly with the help of medieval ships and their rat infestations.

The costume of the Plague Doctor appeared, doctors were supposed to wear these costumes when visiting plague patients. The mask is in the shape of a birds beak, and the leather hat was supposed to make a person look like an Egyptian divinity to scare off the disease. The beak however, was actually a protective device to save the doctor from the unbearable infected stench. The beak was filled with medical herbs to ease the breathing process. The doctor would also wear a long waxed raincoat and leather or thick fabric clothes to help avoid bites from the flea’s and physical contact.

There is also evidence that there is a connection between the Black Death and the end of the world 2012. There was a prediction by Nostradamus that does seem to give proof to many people who combine his predictions with the 2012 date. Some of those predictions included World War III, the coming of the Antichrist and several natural disasters. He predicted the 2012 doomsday to begin with several natural disasters. Also, the prediction of a planet hitting Earth. There is a planet named X, but Nostradamus did not name it. Experts have found that there is a planet heading near the Earth. Nostradamus also predicted a disastrous war for December 21^st, 2012.

In relation to all of this we have a movement of people currently on a revolutionary journey to change our world for the better. Connecting to the awakening of people in the last few years. Specifically connected to the “death” of Michael Jackson. Some believe he “died” in order to bring awareness and awakening to the masses. So that upon his rising from the dead will signify that a deeper message needs to be received in order for the people to change before it is to late to save our world.


To Be Continued....

Still Don’t Believe???

Still don’t believe in the twin theory? You have been given so much information on the subject. There have been pictures like these.

Videos like these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrVKDG7BH6A&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_AkKZXVhik&feature=player_embedded

OK well lets try this one on. Have you ever seen Michael smoke? We all know he was consious of his health, being a vegatarian for a good many years. So why would he be caught smoking? Notice the scar on his pinky finger!!

You really think 1 man could have done all that he has done? Yes he used doubles but not for concerts and videos. Michael wouldn’t cheat his fans…YOU KNOW THAT FOR A FACT!!!

A "Sleeping" King

July 7, 2009 was the Michael Jackson memorial. Brooke Shields did hold a speech and said that Michael Jackson was often referred to as “the King” but to her he reminded of “The Little Prince”

”What moves me so deeply, about this sleeping prince…is his loyalty to a flower – the image of a rose shining within him like a flame within a lamp, even when he’s asleep. And I realized he was even more fragile than I had thought. Lamps must be protected. A gust of wind can blow them out.“

“Eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart. What’s most important is invinsible.”

Listen to your heart and you will know the truth!

Someone who is sleeping can wake up

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