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THE SCRIBES

=What are the scribes: =  he scribes of ancient Egypt were responsible for registering, sorting, counting and copy,using various ypes of writing, such hieratic and demotic, allowing write quickly, with the help of a stylus on papyrus or ostraca.

His dress was simple, it was a skirt made of linen or cotton. The scribes belonged to a special breed The scribes were indispensable for the functioning of the state apparatus. In Egypt, the functioning of the State rested essentially on the scribes. His mission was to transcribe orders, annotate and control in general economic activity. Bureaucrats were attached to the palace of Pharaoh, but dependent tanbien had temples and army.For most life form of the type was located well above the remaining lower social groups, for their indispensable cooperation and close contact with the ruling class. Access to the scribal schools were open, in theory, the whole population, (end of ancient Egypt). There are data from the beginning, the scribes were chosen among those privileged who had been trained in the royal family environment.

For much of its centralized administration positions required large number of officers who could read and write, to pursue a career was first need to get a proper education in a school attached to the palace or temple, which are copied books and received instructions.  In Ancient Egypt the scribes played an important role, for they knew the hieroglyphic writing, mathematics and computation. Some of them enjoyed great relief social.Hay quje note that in the early civilizations most people know how to write and thus their knowledge was valued socially. The scribes belonged to a special breed. Raised in a house of life, which depended on a temple, the scribes apprentices studied, five years at seventeen, and hieratic hieroglyphic writing, grammar and classical texts, and learn law, languages, history, geography and accounting. The scribes belonged to a special breed. In Egypt, the functioning of the State rested essentially on the scribes. Managers, accountants, writers and notaries public, these masters of writing were ubiquitous computing. They worked in all departments of the administration, even becoming royal scribes, dominating the central administration.

In principle, the scribes were chosen among those privileged who had been trained in the royal family environment. At the end of the Old Kingdom, the development of the administration led to the emergence of a caste of scribes. The charges were transmitted generally through families. The famous text entitled "From teaching Jety" Noble talks about a trade.

There were many parents who saw their children, "there was no more beautiful work than write". Raised in a house of life, which depended on a temple, the scribes apprentices studied, five years at seventeen, and hieratic hieroglyphic writing, grammar and classical texts, as well as learning law, languages, history, geography and accounting. The function of the scribes in ancient Egypt was so important that they had their own god Thoth. This was the inventor and patron of writing and wisdom to attending all other gods for help and good advice.

The scribes had to Thoth (or Dyehuty in Egyptian) as god and that allowed them to be social in an excellent position, very close to the Pharaohs. But Thoth was also the god of music, medicine, geometry, astronomy, magic and symbol of the Moon.

He was also the messenger of the Gods and ensured compliance with their will, being identified by the Greeks with the god Hermes, so the main town of his cult was baptized as Hermopolis. They ruled the "House of Life" and it was said that Thoth had codified the ceremonies that transform the dead in their spirits so that only the priests knew.

As with many of the myths, the rumors about his birth abound. Some say he was the son of Ra, and other born of Seth's head, as the Greek goddess Athena was born from Zeus's head, not to mention that this was also the goddess of wisdom.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Thoth is a god so old that participated in the creation myths and the birth of Osiris, when asked Nut Thot assistance to have children. During the clashes between Seth and Horus for the mastery of Egypt, Thoth allied with Isis and Horus Ra to defend them, and when the goddess Tefnut away the Nubian desert, taking with it moisture, Thoth was persuaded to return and for this took the form of a baboon. Since then he is represented with this animal, or with the head of an ibis, a pen and tablet to record celestial write thoughts, words and deeds of men and weigh in the balance.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">As secretary of the gods, Thoth possessed and dominated the effective word, write the laws, accounts, stories and the Book of Life. As lord of the calendar and scribe of the <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">gods, noted the years of each pharaoh and was also present in the judgment of the dead, interrogating the deceased to see if he was worthy of life after death. The ibis feather, its attribute princpipal be weighed alongside the heart of the deceased, if heavier than the pen could not pass into the world of Osiris, if yes weighed the same, and nothing could weigh less than the feather of Thoth.

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