Occultist Hermes Trismegistus the supposed author of the Emerald Tablet associated with the Egyptian Thoth Note the Grecian Sphinx with salamander on plinth or Mercurius ter Maximus in Latin, is the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. In Hellenistic Egypt, the god Hermes was given as epithet the Greek name of Thoth. He has also been identified with Enoch. Other similar syncretized gods include Serapis and Hermanubis.