This morning I had a dream which involved a baboon who knew a whole lot about the Old Testament, for some reason. He also had a knife just like mine. And he also rode either a donkey or an ostrich. I shit you not. Actually, when he and I first ran into each other, we ended up fighting/wrestling. Then he kept trying to trick me as to which knife belonged to me. It was really weird.

LATER!

I was looking up info about baboons and their like mythological connections and crap. One in particular sticks out at me. Thoth, one of the Egyptian gods sometimes takes the form of a baboon. He also appeared as an ibis-headed man. Among the many things attributed to Thoth were writing and magic and wisdom and crap. This passage is pretty interesting:

The magical powers of Thoth were so great, that the Egyptians had tales of a ‘Book of Thoth’, which would allow a person who read the sacred book to become the most powerful magician in the world. The Book which “the god of wisdom wrote with his own hand” was, though, a deadly book that brought nothing but pain and tragedy to those that read it, despite finding out about the “secrets of the gods themselves” and “all that is hidden in the stars”.

All this reminds me of the idea presented in this dream that the baboon was some sort of expert on the “Old Testament.” Some people refer to the tarot deck as the “Book of Thoth.” He also became associated with the Greek god Hermes, and the alchemical Hermes Trismegistos.

Thoth was also a god of the dead:

Thoth was also a god of the underworld, where he served as a clerk who recorded the judgments on the souls of the dead. Alternatively, it was Thoth himself who weighed the hearts of the dead against the feather of Truth in the Hall of the Two Truths.

Also!

Here’s a HIGHLY questionable article from a weird South African news site, which has a story about a baboon stealing a baby boy, and eating his brain.