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Herpetine Triskeles

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Mentioned in Pyramids, Herpetine Triskeles is the supreme god of Djelibeybi's afterlife, the Netherworld... or at least one of them (there are at least 4)

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Hermes Trismegistus was a "composite god" who was synthesised out of elements of Greek and later Egyptian mythology and who was actively worshipped well into the years A.D. He is a composite of Hermes, the Greek messenger god (think Fedecks), who as the Pyschopomp delivered souls to the Underworld. The Egyptian half is the god Thoth, the post-mortem judge who weighed the souls of the dead against the feather of Truth and pronounced sentence.

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