There is so much information available about Tehuti that it's difficult to pick a starting point. We are familiar with the principles by now...
He had many titles:
Lord of Khemennu, self-created, to whom none hath given birth, god One; He who rekons in heaven, the counter of the stars, the enumerator of the earth and of what is therin, and the measurer of the earth; and the heart of Ra wich cometh forth in the form of the god Thoth; lord of books; lord of divine words and the scribe of the gods.
The name Tehuti was derived from the oldest name of the Ibis (tehu). The ending of "ti" indicates the idea that the king called Tehuti possesed the qualities and attributes of the ibis.
Baboon???
There's two or three reasons for the baboon shape. First of all, like the Greek god Hermes (with whom he became identified), Thoth is a trickster. Baboons are clever animals. So that fits. Also, strangely enough, many bands of baboons line up facing east before sunrise and howl the sun up. The Egyptians worshiped the sun as Re, the King of the Gods and source of all life, so they thought the baboons were doing the same thing. Finally, some scholars guess that the Egyptians saw a "baboon in the moon" instead of a man's face, and Thoth is a moon-god.
Hermetic comes from the Greek god of writing Hermes. Who was also a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth.
Hermes Trismegistus. The origin of the description Trismegistus or "thrice great" is unclear...
The associations to Thoth-Hermes could partially explain why some later Greek scholars linked Hermes Trismegistus to a hypothetical historical figure, given the numerous deifications.
There were several great philosophers and writers in Kemet.... All of whom would have contributed to and paid homage to Tehuti's body of work.....
Amenemope (ca. 1100 BCE) the son of Kanakht (Kanacht) is the ostensible author of the
Instruction of Amenemope, an Egyptian wisdom text written in the Ramesside Period.
Which is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of ancient near-eastern wisdom literature and has been of particular interest to modern scholars because of its relationship to the biblical Book of Proverbs
Amenhotep, son of Hapu, was an architect, a priest, a scribe, and a public official, who held a number of offices under Amenhotep III.
He is said to have been born at the end of Thutmose III's reign, in the town of Athribis (modern Banha in the north of Cairo). His father was Hapu, and his mother Itu.[1] He was a priest and a Scribe of Recruits (organizing the labour and supplying the manpower for the Pharaoh's projects, both civilian and military).
One myth relating to Tehuti:
Shu, the son of the sun god, Ra, reigned as king of Egypt for many years. When his daughter Nut fell in love with the god Geb, Shu was wildly jealous. To keep the lovers far apart, he turned Nut into the sky and Geb into the earth. Then he cursed Nut with barrenness, proclaiming that there were no months of the year in which she could give birth.
Thoth took pity on Nut and Geb. He challenged the reigning gods to a game of dice and soundly beat them all. As his prize he asked the gods to give him five days in addition to those that already existed. Thoth in turn presented the five extra days to the sky goddess, Nut. Because these five extra days did not belong to any particular month, they did not fall under Shu's curse. Thus, the goddess was able to use them to produce five children, including Osiris and Isis.
Prior to Thoth's gift, each of the twelve months of the Egyptian calendar had 30 days, resulting in a 360-day year. Thoth's act of kindness reconciled the Egyptian calendar with the earth's actual 365-day cycle.
Creation myths changed over the course of Egyptian history.