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Sesheta, or Sefkhet-Aabut is the goddess of learning and

writing. Her name was sometimes thought to mean 'she who
has inverted the horns' or 'she who is provided with seven
horns'. The first part of her name Sefkhet is also a word for
seven.

She is the ultimate scribe, the goddess of scribes (the word

for scribe is sesh). In her hands she holds a scribe's palette
and writing reed. She was a goddess of the library as well.
She is sometimes called "great one, lady of letters, mistress
of the house of books". She was thought of to be a recording
angel, and was an associate of Thoth, the god of
mathematics.

Her name in hieroglyphics:

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Hieroglyphic sign for Horus

The main feature of Egyptian mathematics were their

fractions. The hieroglyphic symbol for fraction is at the same
time the smallest unit for grain and is described by a symbol
for ro , depicting an open mouth.

Ro is the smallest part of a hekat largest measure for grain.

The only fractions of hekat used were 2 4 8 1 6 3 2 and 6 4.
The smallest of these fractions, 6 4, contained 5 ro . These
fractions were written in a special way, quite unlike ordinary
fractions and the symbols when put together, form the Eye
of Horus, one of the most well known symbols of ancient
Egypt, and were used solely for the measure of grain.
Horus was the son of Isis and Osiris, who was conceived after
Isis revived Osiris (as he was slain by his brother Seth).
Horus is also one of the names of the sun, and had his myths
independently from either Ra or Osiris.

The myth of Blind Horus describes the victory of Darkness

over Light. A legend contained in the 112th chapter of the
Book of the Dead describes Horus as wounded in the eye by
Seth (or Set) in the form of a black boar. Set swallowed the
eye, and was compelled to vomit it from the prison in which
he was confined with a chain of steel fastened about his
neck. The Eye of Horus is afterwards spoken of as a distinct
deity, terrible to the enemies of Light.
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According to another
version of the legend, Horus' eye is restored to him by Tehuti
(or Teth, who is known to be, among other things, a God of
Mathematics), who is the Egyptian Hermes. Tehuti is
sometimes called also "the measurer of this earth". He is
said to have "calculated the heaven and counted the stars",
and to have "calculated the earth and counted the things
which are in it".

Horus role in the Egyptian mythology is also often linked to

the rites of the dead, and the gods who prepare and take the
deceased to the otherworld. Through the rites performed by
priests, the new body of the deceased grew out of the dead
body and was called into existence by the ceremonies and
words which were recited by the priests on the day when the
mummified body was laid in the tomb.

The gods nourished themselves with celestial food, which

was supplied to them by the Eye of Horus.

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he name Thoth means 'Truth' and 'Time'. In Egyptian

mythology Thoth was the originator of order - like a master
architect who invented all structure of our world, based on a
balance of bad and good forces. He was known also as the
first being who could measure, and therefore is identified
with Geometry or Mathematics. Thoth is sometimes called
also "the measurer of this earth". He is said to have
"calculated the heaven and counted the stars", and to have
"calculated the earth and counted the things which are in it".
Thoth is also known as Tehuti, or Theth. His later
'incarnation' is Hermes (Greek mythology) or Mercury
(Romans).