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This is not a piece for those seeking quiet contemplation
"Come refresh my father
It is a moment of silence frozen in time
the Mother
providing a quiet
Bastet Statue Isis Goblet This is not a pieceBastet, also called Bast, ancient Egyptian goddess worshipped in the form of a lioness and later a cat. The daughter of Ra, the sun god, Bastet was an ancient deity whose ferocious nature was ameliorated after the domestication of the cat around 1500 BCE. She was native to Bubastis in the Nile River delta but also had an important cult at Memphis. In the Late and Ptolemaic periods large cemeteries of mummified cats were created at both sites, and