July 31, 2004
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I would like to share with you my ire at the stubborn, stupidity of a woman I had to deal with tonight at work. A woman who cannot pronounce Thoth. Who believes she is right because she’s studied for sixteen years at the sphincter of her so-and-so teacher of some so-and-so magic shop in New York who told her Thoth is pronounces with a soft TH at beginning and end. And she had to call me from home after calling her so-and-so teacher from New York who assured her that, yes indeed, her pronounciation was in fact the correct pronounciation thankyouverymuch. Yay! Whoopie! Congrats on paying long distance to get an incorrect answer and call me up to whine about my correcting her pronounciation.
I would just like to say WHATEVER!
You know what? Set aside the fact that I’ve studied Egyptian hieroglyphics and proper pronounciation since elementary school. Set aside the fact that I’ve studied all forms of Paganism and Khemetic magic for nineteen years. Set aside the fact that I have two frikkin past lives in Egypt. One of my patron gods IS Thoth and until he appears before me and says, excuse me, but you’re mispronouncing my name everytime you pray to me, I’m not going to start mispronouncing his name just because some ignorant, beligerant woman likes to pay long distance rates to get incorrect answers from deluded people who think they have to the right to teach.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAgggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Thank you, thank you for bearing with my tirade. For those interested, the proper pronounciation is Tot, sounding almost like taught as in, the ignorant savage who invaded my store tonight was almost taught the right pronounciation of Thoth but had to screw it up by asking someone who doesn’t know! Not that I told her any of the above because you cannot argue with the customers, especially not the beligerant ones who like to make useless long distance phone calls. You never know who else she’ll call up and I need my job.
OK… I feel better now. Really. Well, not really, but at least you all know how to pronounce Thoth now and hopefully the proper pronounciation will spread to the world through you. Go my people, instruct the populace.
I suppose this encounter would explain the blurry dream I had last night about being a supernatural continuously reincarnated mass murderer. Maybe I was working out my aggressions before hand so I wouldn’t rip into the Pagan wannabe. It’s sad when ignorant people rely on other ignorant people to teach them. It just perpetuates the whole thing until it all comes piling on people like me like a ton of manure bricks.
Comments (16)
I do agree with you …about self help Gurus
“Wayne’s World”
“Dr. Spirituality Lite”
“All of the Ego with fifty % Less of the guilt of self judgment”
I not agrees with all the positions taken by Dr. Dyer but I do respect this apparent change in his perspective this paper representsre seen
His views here seen to reflect, the world is Not Prefect just as it is and in fact, could use some changes.
It seem Dr Dyre is waking up a bit or perhaps he has enough money now and no longer kowtows to the system
The hardships so many in the world suffer, which he previously believed are lessons only to help us with our self and beyond our judgment……Have taught him a lesson beyond his expectation
I should have put this in the post so I will add it !:Bats:
This story is great….I dont know how you kept from laughing in her ear…but I always get mad for a while when I see someone so wrapped in their own egos:Powpow:
I Posted dyers comments a bit late last night without refelecting on it fully!
I like some of what he said so I posted it because it did contain a valid prespective not often expressed…
(You dont Post much lately :Taz: He he )
I have since added my slant ….and as I never know when to quit it may grow into a momster:Cthulhu2:
Fankyou thor fe chance of letting me read fis blog, but who cares how fof is pronounced? I have been to Oxthord but I don’t care!
ahh the little burrs that prod us along in life…:Poke: ( ok I just really wanted to use the pokey stick guy. he still makes me smile) as to your last post I agree I my mood tends to darken around the end of summer. (the fourth week of Aug till the 2nd or 3rd week of sept)
oops almost forgot … enjoy the blue moon
:Monkey:
Haha! That was entertaining, u know~. :Egypt:
I love hieroglyphics and Egyptology. I’m looking for good schools that teach it, along with any good occult sources to learn from. Know any? My thing is cryptography, but whenever I look that subject up at my university, it’s just a bunch of computer science crud! :Rant: Nahh~~~not for me.^^ I was born for ancient occult cryptography. :yes:
Oh, and I keep hearing that Thoth, Hermes, and possibly the ancient Merlin too are all referring to the same person, only different names in different regions. What do you know about this?
Oh, I’m sure you are right about the pronunciation of Thoth being Tot because from my understanding, they didn’t have that “th” sound. So I wonder why they use the “h’s” at all. U know? Usually the “h” is used as some sort of gutteral sound associated with the consonant it is paired up with in some languages when they carry over to Roman letters.
Wow. That’s amazing that you have that much experienece with Thoth and magic though, yeah? :Watching: haha^^
Ha! :Karate: (anybody who tries ta mess with that pronunciation is gonna GET IT!) haha.
oh jeez!~~~~…how lame can I be today posting three time cuz I keep leaving out some little tidbit??? haha…
Ok..I meant to list Thoth, Enoch, Hermes, and Merlin…..
ok…there……^_^
now i can pronouce Thoth correctly.. :Faint2:
Thanks for the Med tips. Thankfully I have two Healthy Aloe plants but I morn the loss of my Comfrey plant ( which was good for almost every thing)
I am fortunate enough to have a friend who is very much into holoistic therapy. she is acctully the one who got my intrest in medicine sparked in the first place
Yep. I can understand the mispronounciation tirade. Been there, done that. I’ve heard it pronound “thoth”, “toth” and “tot” and, like you, I say “TOT” tyvm.
It’s like the guy I came across who insisted “sidhe” (the people) was pronounce “sid-hee” and “sidh” (the houses they lived in) was pronounced “side”. NO! It’s “she” (sidhe) and “sith” (sidh).
And (growls) the folks who pronounce “samhain” just as it’s spelled? “sam-hane”. GRRRR!
Word warriors unite! :Knight: :Conquered:
Erg. Should have been “pronounced”, not “pronound”. Just because I can say it, doesn’t mean I can spell it. Or, more to the point, type it.
:Chaos:
Hot Damn! These are some COOOOoooooOOOOooooL icons!
Ya know what? There really ought to be a better way to spell Gaelic words. NONE of them look the way they sound.
Really though, I think if one were to mispronounce a Deity’s name whilst praying, said Deity might understand that the supplicant was an ignorant, uneducated doofus, and perhaps take pity. Unless one were to mispronounce something like Cthulu, in which case, good luck :Cthulhu2: !
“The sages speak of many Names, but the Truth is One.” `the Vedas
“The name that can be named is not the Eternal Name.” `Lao Tzu
There were two monks walking on the shore of a lake with an island nearby. They were listening to mantra being recited from the island. Knowing that the pronounciation was incorrect (as they, themselves have learned the mantra from a great sage), and, seeing a boat close by in the reeds, the two monks rowed to the little island, seeking out the hermit, to instruct him in the proper pronounciation of the mantra.
The hermit was most humbly grateful for the time, and the generous teachings of the monks. As the monks were paddling back to shore, they heard the sound of ”spit, spat, spit, spat…” behind them. On turning around, they saw the hermit running after them along the surface of the water. On arriving at the boat, the hermit said; “Please excuse this old hermit, I have forgotten the correct pronounciation of the words of the mantra. Could you please repeat them?”
@mrmxyzptlk1 - lol I was more flabbergasted that she’d waste her time calling up her teacher and then calling me up, than anything else. Eh… it’s funny now… five years later.
@mrmxyzptlk1 - lol I was more flabbergasted that she’d waste her time calling up her teacher and then calling me up, than anything else. Eh… it’s funny now… five years later.