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Hermes Trismegistus is the latin name for "Hermes the thrice-greatest" derived from 'Åñìçò Ôñéóìåãéóôïò, the Greek name of the Egyptian god Thoth (Egyptian god of wisdom and writing).
Sometimes referred to as the god, sometimes as a man contemporary to Moses, who was son of the god.
During the middle-ages and later, a series of scripts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, known as the Hermetica were popular.

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