The ibises are a group of long-legged wading birds, that
inhabit wetlands, forests, and plains.
The African sacred ibis was an object of religious
veneration in ancient Egypt, particularly associated with the deity Djehuty or
otherwise commonly referred to in Greek as Thoth. He is responsible for
writing, mathematics, measurement and time as well as the moon and magic.
In artworks of the
Late Period of Ancient Egypt, Thoth is popularly depicted as an ibis-headed man
in the act of writing.
The symbolism was perhaps based on the habits as an
inquisitive wading bird with a curving beak somewhat like a Crescent moon. Hundreds
of thousands of mummified Ibis have been discovered at Sakkara, near Memphis
the ancient capital of Egypt.
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