His organism is perhaps of a more precious, subtle, and so more fragile nature ?" Nebsecht shrugged his shoulders.
"Perhaps!" he said.
"I thought you must know." "I--how should I ?" asked the leech.

"I have told you--they would not even let me try to find out how the hand of a forger moves." "Consider, the scripture tells us the passage of the soul depends on the preservation of the body." Nebsecht looked up with his cunning little eyes and shrugging his shoulders, said: "Then no doubt it is so: however these things do not concern me.

Do what you like with the souls of men; I seek to know something of their bodies, and patch them when they are damaged as well as may be." "Nay-Toth be praised, at least you need not deny that you are master in that art." [Toth is the god of the learned and of physicians.

The Ibis was sacred to him, and he was usually represented as Ibis-headed.

Ra created him "a beautiful light to show the name of his evil enemy." Originally the Dfoon-god, he became the lord of time and measure.
He is the weigher, the philosopher among the gods, the lord of writing, of art and of learning.