The ancient Egyptians saw Bast as a cat goddess. Many ancient Egyptian gods had animal heads.
The Goddess Bast/Bastet has the head of a cat, in Egyptian mythology.
The animal head associated with the Egyptian goddess Bast, also known as Bastet, is that of a lioness or a domestic cat. She is often depicted with the body of a woman and the head of a lioness or a cat.
Bast is a cat goddess because she was partcat.
Yes, there are a few mythical creatures that have the body of a women and the head of a cat. Bast and Sekhemet are 2 Egyptian goddesses who have them. Check out the website in the Related Links for more information on Bast and Sekhemet.
She had 3 forms: a fully feline form, a normal woman, or a woman with the head of a cat.
Bastet, the Cat Goddess. (the goddess who represented the healing power of the sun).in ancient Egypt Bastet was what represented the cat.
if y "they" you mean the ancient Egyptians, then they made cat mummies/masks because they believed that cats were the sacred animal of the goddess Bastet or Bast. Bast was often moddled with a woman's body and cat head.
bast was well known for a cat-like shape. separating herself from most other gods with the HEAD of an animal but the body of a human. bast is one of the only gods that was pure animal. Showing the Eyptians' worship for cats.
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Bast, also spelled Bastet, Baast or Ubasti depicted as a fierce lioness or the woman with the head of a lion. She began to be represented as a cat woman in the first millennium BC when cats were kept as pets
Bast the cat goddess
hatshepsut, she was the first ever female pharoah in egypt, and to honor her, the egyptians made a statue of her only in cat form.