Beautiful Bast Cat Goddess
Bast or Bastet, the famous 'cat goddess' of ancient Egypt. . This cat statue is among the hundreds from Queen Berenike's Bastet temple, the first known. Bastet (or Bast) is a feline goddess of ancient Egyptian religion. Bastet began as a Lioness Goddess, and Gradually became a Cat Goddess. 25/02/2001 - Bast, Feline Protector, Goddess of Lower Egypt . they were very valuable in Egypt, considering the Egyptian need (with the hot weather) . Hathor-Tefnut was described in the Myth of the Eye of the Sun in the temple at Philae. Bastet (also known as Bast) replaced the ancient cult of Mafdet, the earliest cat goddess of ancient Egypt. In her benign aspect Bastet was worshipped as the kindly life giving god of fire, cats, the home and pregnant women. الانتقال إلى Temple - As protector of Lower Egypt, she was seen as defender of the pharaoh, and consequently of the sun god, Ra. Along with other deities like Hathor, Sekhmet, and Isis, Bastet was associated with the Eye of Ra. . ...