so how do you think he is "three times big" if 8 is not a multiple of 3?   mes.htm > in the story of the magician djedi, a man of a hundred and ten, we read that he knew the number of the secret chambers of the sanctuary of thoth, the "word of the god re". he is called the "son of re" and "lord of the eight gods" (the ogdoad of hermopolis). in the funerary rituals, thoth acted the part of the recorder, and his decision was accepted by all deities. thoth observed whether the heart (mind) of the deceased was light enough to balance the feather of truth & justice. this by "weighing the words", for the heaviness of heart was the result of unwholesome speech (cf. the insistence on silence also served magical purposes). thoth was also the ultimate teacher of magic, ritualism & the words of power which opened the secret pylons of the underworld > his original home was khemenu, or "eight-town", referring to the four pairs of mythical chaos-gods existing before creation, of which thoth became the leader and head. the greeks called it hermopolis ("city of hermes") > in hermopolitan theology, the nun was personified by the ogdoad, showing that this theology was intimately linked with the "mind of re" speaking its great word (the sacred ibis dropping the great word in the limitless ocean of inert possibilities), which transformed the pre-creational, chaotic ogdoad (cf. the four female snake-goddesses & four male frog-gods with predynastic roots) into the ennead of hermopolis headed by the "first of the eight", the great word of re. the hermopolitan scheme is cognitive, conceptual and promotes the eastern idea that speech has creative & magical power > as in memphite theology of ptah, the original great god (here thoth) creates it all with divine words in his mind and on his tongue, a prefiguration of the greek logos-philosophy
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