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Bastet
Bastet is the goddess of cats in Egyptian mythology. Her other names include Bast, Baast, Ubasti and Baset. Questions related to Bastet can be found in this category.
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How many people believed in Bastet the cat goddess of Egypt?
There is no certain way to be sure of how many people in ancient Egypt believed in Bast through out history.
When was the Bubastis's festival held?
In Herodotus's Historieshe only describes the festival, he does not say when it was so we do not know today.
Bastet in ancient Egyptain myth is not noted for fear, she fought the great enemy of Ra her father Apep/Aphophis.
What were bastets special traits?
Bastet was the ancient Egyptain goddess of the sun (originally), the moon (after the Greeks), cats, women, and secrets. She was often depicted as either a desert cat, or a woman with the head of a cat (this form possibly dates after the domestication of the Egyptian wild cat).
Bastet was very joyous and kind. She was especially kind to women and children.
What did the goddess Bastet rule over?
She was/is the Egyptian cat goddess, the goddess of fire, cats, home and fertility. According to one myth, she was the personification of the soul of http://wiki.answers.com/../isis.htmShe was also called the "Lady of the East".
In ancient Egypt, Bast was believed to have lived among mortals.
What did the Goddess Bastet hold in her hands?
she would hold a stick that represented eternity. She also wore cow horns with a sun disk on her head or headdress.
Does Bastet have any relatives?
Her father was Ra, her sister was Sekhmet, her husband was Ptah, and her son was Khonsu or Mihos. She didn't have a mom. She was said to have been created by Ra's developing sperm in the ocean...
The goddess Bast or Bastet (hieroglyphs bAstt) was sometimes the mother of Nefertem, sometimes the mother of Ma'hes. Ma'hes was also considered to be the son of Sekhmet, another cat-headed goddess.
These apparent contradictions are typical of a religion that began in prehistory as more than 40 different regional religions, each independent of all the others; when Egypt was unified these many hundreds of gods and goddesses were simply combined into the national religion. Since the same goddess (for example Bast) had been worshipped and understood differently in different areas, it is no surprise that contradictions can be found.
The ancient Egyptians saw no contradictions at all in these different versions, but considered all of them to be true at the same time - simply part of the mysterious existence of the gods.
When was the goddess Bastet born?
She was a woman with a cats head or a woman with a crown shaped like cat's ears. She was the goddess of music, dancing, joy, fertility, cats, felines, hemp, children, childbirth, love, the sky, and women. she was said to send out black cats and Egyptian maus as her messengers
With the body of a woman and the head of a woman and head of a cat, this ancient Egyptian goddess was the protector of fire, cats, pregnant women, and the home. To obtain her favors, the ancient Egyptians offered fresh fish to house cats, which were considered to be her earthly representatives. Her temple was located in the ancient city of Bubastis in northern Egypt.
Does the goddess bast or Bastet have anything to do with palestine?
Palestine is a conventional name, among others, for the geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands. The region has a long and tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. It has been home to Ancient Egyptians, Canaanites, Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Ancient Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, the Sunni Arab Caliphates, the Shia Fatimid Caliphate, Crusaders, Ayyubids, Mameluks, Ottomans, the British and modern Israelis and Palestinians.
Bast has a history there, yes, because of the Ancient Egyptians, but it is likely a easily overlooked and buried one.
In Egyptian mythology how was the God Bastet depicted?
Bastet is the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, and has the face of a cat as well.
Is there proof that dragons existed?
Not really, but consider this; almost every civilization on earth, the Chinese the Norse the Europeans even native Americans came up with the same idea, a flying lizard that sometimes breathes fire. Most of them didn't even know the others existed at that time, so how did they come up with that idea. Oh and they found a baby dragon preserved in a jar, just saying.
Zoologists believe that there were prehistoric dragons called Pterosaurs
Also, I saw something on Animal Planet one time and there were these scientists who went into this frozen cave, brought it back to the lab and thawed it out. It was thought to be a dragon, but hey, who knows??
they Baby dragon they thawed was actullay a doco on a what if they had created
the segment is called Dargons, a fantasy made real
Yes. I have two dragon footprints at my grandpa's house, both European and in cement. He lives in England.
Where was goddess bastet buried?
In ancinet Egyptian religion, Bast never died and so was never buried.
