As the fierce lion god Maahes of Nubia later became part of Egyptian mythology, during the time of the New Kingdom, Bastet was held to be the daughter of Amun Ra, a newly ascending deity in the Egyptian pantheon during that late dynasty.

As divine mother, and more especially as protector, for Lower Egypt, Bastet became strongly associated with Wadjet, the patron goddess of Lower Egypt.

The association of Bastet as mother of Anubis, was broken years later when Anubis became identified as the son of Nephthys.

Wadjet was closely associated in the Egyptian pantheon with Bast ( Bastet ) the fierce goddess depicted as a lioness warrior and protector, a sun goddess whose eye later became the eye of Horus or the eye of Ra, the Lady of Flame.

The cat goddess Bast ( also known as Bastet ) eventually replaced the cult of Mafdet, and Bast's image softened over time and she became the deity representing protection, fertility, and motherhood.

Bubastis was a center of worship for the feline goddess Bast ( also called Bastet ( emphasising the feminine ending t ), or even Bubastis ( after the city )), which the ancient Greeks identified with Artemis.

Nefertum was eventually seen as the son of the creator god Ptah, and the goddesses Sekhmet and Bastet were sometimes called his mother.

) In Egyptian mythology, Bast ( also spelled Bastet, Baset, Ubasti, and Pasht ) is an ancient goddess, worshipped at least since the Second dynasty of Egypt, which is dated 2890 to 2690 BC.

Bubastis was the ancient capital of the 18th nome, and is home to the feast celebrating the cat-goddess Bastet.

* The Carreras Cigarette Factory ( now Greater London House ), a striking Art Deco Egyptian Revival building dating from 1926 to 1928, stands at Mornington Crescent and is distinguished by a pair of-high bronze statues of the Egyptian cat god Bastet.

According to sources, the site also included a chapel or an oratory to the goddess Bastet, which seems consistent with the presence of monuments of rulers of the dynasty following the Bubastis.

Alternatively Anubis appears as the son of Bastet or Isis.

Bastet is the name commonly used by scholars today to refer to a feline goddess of ancient Egyptian religion who was worshipped at least since the Second Dynasty.

Bastet, the form of the name which is most commonly adopted by Egyptologists today, is a modern convention offering one possible reconstruction.

The Hebrew rendering of the name for this town is Pî-beset (" House of Bastet "), spelled without Vortonsilbe.

From the third millennium BC, when Bastet begins to appear in our record, she is depicted as either a fierce lioness or a woman with the head of a lion.

In the first millennium BC, when domesticated cats were popularly kept as pets, Bastet began to be represented as a woman with the head of a cat and ultimately emerged as the Egyptian cat-goddess par excellence.

In the Middle Kingdom, the domestic cat appeared as Bastet ’ s sacred animal and after the New Kingdom she was depicted as a woman with the head of a cat or a lioness, carrying a sacred rattle and a box or basket.

Lakes known as isheru were typical of temples devoted to a number of leonine goddesses who are said to represent one original goddess, daughter of the Sun-God Re / Eye of Re: Bastet, Mut, Tefnut, Hathor and Sakhmet.

Turner and Bateson estimate that during the Twenty-second dynasty c. 945-715 BC, Bastet worship changed to being a major cat deity ( as opposed to a lioness deity ).

He equated Bastet with the Greek Goddess Artemis.

The death of a cat might leave a family in great mourning and those who could would have them embalmed or buried in cat cemeteries-pointing to the great prevalence of the cult of Bastet.

Later scribes sometimes renamed her Bastet, a variation on Bast consisting of an additional feminine suffix to the one already present, thought to have been added to emphasize pronunciation ; perhaps it is a diminutive name applied as she receded in the ascendancy of Sekhmet in the Egyptian pantheon.

Since Bastet literally meant, ( female ) of the ointment jar, Her name was related with the lavish jars in which Egyptians stored their perfume.

This merging of identities of similar goddesses has led to considerable confusion, leading to some attributing to Bastet the title Mistress of the Sistrum ( more properly belonging to Hathor, who had become thought of as an aspect of the later emerging Isis, as had Mut ), and the Greek idea of her as a lunar goddess ( more properly an attribute of Mut ) rather than the solar deity she was.

Bastet is a playable character in the Multiplayer online battle arena, SMITE.

Bastet is a melee assassin and is nicknamed the Goddess of Cat.

Bastet, known as Bast, is a recurring character in the Kane Chronicles Trilogy.

In Hellenistic times, especially during the 3rd century BCE, as Apollo Helios he became identified among Greeks with Helios, Titan god of the sun, and his sister Artemis similarly equated with Selene, Titan goddess of the moon.

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