: Now, what the hell is that? You're probably thinking of
: Thoth, who has the head of an Ibis. He was the god of
: scribes, and, I believe, the moon. But he doesn't
: judge the dead. A lot of gods have to do with the
: judging of souls, with Anubis working the scales,
: Thoth writing the results down, and Osiris, lord of
: the afterlife, presiding over the whole thing, but no
: god actually did the judging. The deceased (or, as the
: Egyptians said, 'the justified')'s heart was placed on
: a scale along with the feather of truth (connected
: with Ma'at, goddess of tru7h... err... truth). If the
: heart was lighter than the feather, the justified got
: to go to the afterlife. If not, the Devourer eats
: them. So it goes.
Ack. Removed the Ibis-god bit, and replaced with a bit about herons, phonixes, and rebirth. (And if you have issues with that, take it up with the Encyclopedia Mythica).
I think I got the term "ibis" confused with Isis, and Isis in turn confused with Osiris (both -is names), who I assosiated with Thoth (the whole judging-the-dead thing), who had the head of an ibis which only makes things more confusing. Ungh.
