Description
His sacred duties include protecting tombs
" representing eternal life and omnipotent vitality
Its influence is frequently seen in works depicting angels
There is a certain dry irony in placing a god of fire on a wooden bookshelf
Width: 30cm / 12 inches
Bastet Statue Tutankhamun_Papyrus His sacred duties include protectingBastet, 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