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> Yes, Thoth was an Egyptian god. The Greeks may have "borrowed" him, but I'm not sure about that.
No they didn't! Now why did I write greek? Sorry.
Rapunzel - do you know whether the Thoth can fly?
A few Gods of the Hindu Mythology :
Indra - The king of Gods who rides an Albino elephant called Airavath
Vayu - God of the Wind
Agni - God of Fire
Varun - God of the Waters
Yama - God of Death
Kamadeva - God of love and Sex
Surya - the Sun God
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Yama - God of DeathWell, that explains all those guys risking life and limb on motorcycles. Yama? Ha! 
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Beware of geeks bearing gifts...
Or, as computer nerds from the Southern USA would have it, "Beware of geeks bearing grits."
What do you call a crazy boot-licker?
A Psychophant.
No, no, Jackie, a psychophant is an eight foot tall, six thousand pound, grey-skinned manic depressive.
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Jackie and Geoff -- And a Psycho- RANT is defined as follows: _______________________ ,a good example of which is _______________-.
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The Greeks already had Athena, so they didn't need another god of wisdom. Thoth was the god of wisdom in Egypt, and invented writing because of it.
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Jackie and Geoff -- And a Psycho- RANT is defined as follows:
And a psychopant is when your meditation backfires, and causes heavy breathing. This leads to transcendental masturbation.
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Thanks, jimthedog. What's cool about your posts is you nearly always manage to re-state the obvious. Thank you for that 
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Greeks already had Athena, so they didn't need another god of wisdom.
Tsk, tsk, Jimthedog, you have been neglecting your Bulfinch's Mythology lately.
The Godess of Wisdom is Minerva. Her symbol is the owl.
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> Yama - God of Death
> Well, that explains all those guys risking life and limb on motorcycles. Yama? Ha!
... and that is why Yama rides a Bison.
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Greeks already had Athena, so they didn't need another god of wisdom.
Tsk, tsk, Jimthedog, you have been neglecting your Bulfinch's Mythology lately.
The Godess of Wisdom is Minerva. Her symbol is the owl.Tentatively shuffling to the defence of jimthedog, Max proffers the following http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=10190&tocid=0Athena also spelled Athene, in Greek religion, the city protectress, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason, identified by the Romans with Minerva (q.v.). She was essentially urban and civilized, the antithesis in many respects of Artemis, goddess of the outdoors. Athena was probably a pre-Hellenic goddess and was later taken over by the Greeks. Yet the Greek economy, unlike that of the Minoans, was largely military, so that Athena, while retaining her earlier domestic functions, became a goddess of war. 
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