No, not writing about history, but the history of writing.
When I was a potter, we learned about how a major step in the process of glazing occurred when a Chinese kiln master saw that the firing was ruined and he threw himself in to the fire rather than have his head removed later. The sudden amount of organic material into the kiln made some interesting results! The peoples of the time believed it was the kiln master’s spirit that made the firing work. This led to discussions (among us) about various gods of pottery.
So the next time we fired up our kiln (gas, not wood) we formed a little statue out of clay and set it on the kiln roof. We then put a chocolate chip cookie, a little flower, a small amount of silica and a piece of bologna around it. We called it our kiln god. Each firing we presented it with different things as offerings. Yes, we were a weird bunch.
Lorna and I also have traffic light fairies. You know, you go through town and never hit a red light, that means the light fairy is with you. And yes, we are weird.
At any rate, I play a game called Luxor and has an ancient Egyptian theme. Each level (a repeating pattern of 8 I think) is based on either an Egyptian deity or object. One of the levels is called ‘The Scroll of Thoth’. I hadn’t a clue who Thoth was so I looked it up. Wikipedia rocks!
Thoth (tot) is the Greek name for a deity named Djehuty in Egyptian. He has a lot of different varieties to his name: Thot or Thout; Tahuti, Tehuti, Zehuti, Techu, Tetu; Dhwty. He started out as the deity for the moon but wound up being credited with creating time standards and writing; at one point was worshipped by the scribes.
Since the Atlanta/Detroit game was so awful, I looked up ‘writing deity’ in Google. That led me to AncientScripts.com. Cool site! They have a page where they discuss the various gods and creators of writing. Interesting reading. They also have the history of writing, mostly how others have chosen how writing was ‘invented’ and how to categorize it.
There seems to be a lot of connection between the moon and writing. Not sure why.
Mystae.com has a good page on Thoth as well that includes some links.
TourEgypt.net has a page on the history of writing in Egypt and includes some on Thoth. Interestingly, that is what the call him, by his Greek name.
There is a website called the Book of THoTH, a site of paranormal, UFOs, ghosts, etc etc. They say that THoTH is the god of wisdom who wrote all he knew in a single book.
There is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called ‘The Ring of Thoth‘ which later became known as ‘The Mummy’.
And, to complete the circle, most of Egyptian history is preserved in writings on pottery.