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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.
77 Questions
What was the childhood life of Bastet?
There is no ancient Egyptian myth about the childhood of Bast; she was a younger daughter of Ra/Re.
How did the egyptians worship Bastet?
By eating a cat in Honor of the god, bastet. She said that she'd look after cat's as long as she lives and when she dies the cat's will fend for themselves and the death of a cat will trigger something in their brains and they'll never become weak in that area again.
When you study ancient Egyptian religion in detail you find many inconsistencies, often as a result of the same god or goddess being worshipped in different guises in different parts of Egypt.
In some stories, the goddess b3stt (which is today pronounced Bastet, but this is not how the Egyptians said it) is the daughter and protector of the sun god Ra; in others she was always a sun goddess in her own right and had no parents.
Her name means "she of the ointment jar".
What does the Anubis Bastet symbolize?
Bast is the ancient Egyptian goddess of the sun (originally), the moon (after the Greeks), cats, women, and secrets.
Anubis is the ancient Egyptian god of mummification, and the dead on their path through the underworld.
What was sacred to Bastet the goddess of fertility?
Bast was the ancient Egyptian goddess of the sun (originally), the moon (after the Greeks), cats, women, and secrets.
What was the statue of the ancient Egyptian god Bastet in her Bubastis temple made of?
Alabaster is the likeliest answer. It is easy to work and yields an attractive result. It is a soft stone, though, and as such is best-suited to smaller effigies. Bastet was associated with Ra, and was a solar deity. Red sandstone is thought to have symbolic ties to solar deities, and is a harder stone more appropriate to large pieces, so it's possible that Bastet was formed of that. It is also possible that she was a composite of many types of stone.
Where can you find a myth that involves Bastet?
Bastet was an ancient Egyptian god who helped women at childbirth.
Bast is the ancient Egyptian goddess of cats or sensual pleasure.
What is the name of bastet and sekhmet's mother?
Bastet's mother is sometimes told to be Isis while her father is Ra; Sekhmet's mother is not mentioned only that her father is Ra.
There are different accounts on this so it is not certain, but Khonsu, Nefertem and Maahes are mentioned as children of Bastet.
What is the Bast's Special facts?
The lioness represented the war goddess and protector of both lands that would unite as Ancient Egypt. As divine mother, and more especially as protector, for Lower Egypt, Bast became strongly associated with Wadjet, the patron goddess of Lower Egypt. She eventually became Wadjet-Bast, paralleling the similar pair of patron (Nekhbet) and lioness protector (Sekhmet) for Upper Egypt. Bast fought an evil snake named Apep.
As the fierce lion god Maahes of nearby Nubia later became part of Egyptian mythology and assigned the role of the son of Bast, during the time of the New Kingdom, Bast was held to be the daughter of Amun Ra, a newly ascending deity in the Egyptian pantheon during that late dynasty. Bast became identified as his mother in the Lower Egypt, near the delta. Similarly the fierce lioness war goddess Sekhmet, became identified as the mother of Maahes in the Upper Egypt.
Bubastis, the cult center of Bastet, was the capital of Egypt for a time during the Late Period, and some pharaohs took her name in their king-names. Herodotus' description of her temple at Bubastis is that of a place of great splendor and beauty, rivaled only by the templesof Ra and Horus.
What was the relationship of Bastet and Anubis?
If you mean in the red pyramid (book)- they didn't like each other, at all.
If you mean just "old-fashioned" Egyptology than no one really knows. Why would the cat goddess and the jackal-headed god of mummy stuff ever hang out?
Some stories have them as mother and son.
She was important because the Ancient Egyptians believed in her and worshiped cats.
What was Bastet most known for?
Bastet was known for the fact that she protected Ra (the sun god) from the evil serpent, Apep.
Who was the ancient bastets sister kemse-mies?
I know of no Egyptian goddess called Kemse-Mies, but Bast was daughter of Ra and any other daughter of Ra could rightfully be called her sister.
Bastet was an powerful ancient Egyptian cat goddess, so she would have lived in ancient Egypt times.
Bastet wore a solid gold necklace imprinted with the 'Eye of Horus'.
Did Sekhmet ever turn into Bastet?
No; Hathor became Sekhmet; but Sekhmet herself is identified with Bastet.
Maahes (also spelled Mihos, Miysis, Mios, Maihes, and Mahes) was an ancient Egyptian lion-headed god of war,[1] whose name means "he who is true beside her". He was seen as a lion prince, the son of the goddess Bast in Lower Egypt and of Sekhmet in Upper Egypt and shared their natures. His father varied according to the current chief male deity of the time and region. He was a deity associated with war and weather, and was considered the protector of matrilineality and of the high priests of Ammon, as well as that of knives, lotuses, and devouring captives. His cult was centred in Taremu and Per-Bast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maahes
