The Cat Goddess Bastet in ancient Egyptian Art

Bastet or Bast (The Cat Goddess) is a feline-headed or feline-bodied deity in Egyptian religion. She was an ancient deity whose ferocious nature was ameliorated after the domestication of the cat around 1500 BCE.
She is the daughter of Re, the sun god, and her titles are: The Lady of Flame,
and The Eye of Ra.
Originally she was viewed as the protector goddess of Egypt.
In the Middle Kingdom, the domestic cat appeared as Bastet’s sacred animal and after the New Kingdom she was represented as a woman with a cat’s head, carrying an ancient percussion instrument called sistrum in her right hand; an aegis, or breastplate in her left hand; and a small bag over her left arm. She wears an elaborately ornamented dress.
Her cult was carried to Italy by the Romans, and traces have been found in Rome, Ostia, Nemi, and Pompeii.
Bastet was so popular that people from all cultures kept small figures of cats as amulets.
I hope this collection of artworks housed in Egypt and world museums will be a source of your tranquility and solace.
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https://pixabay.com/illustrations/eye-of-horus-eye-of-ra-egypt-gold-6078479/
https://pixabay.com/videos/mystery-fog-fear-halloween-dark-38199/
https://pixabay.com/videos/particles-stars-twinkling-movement-323/
https://pixabay.com/photos/bastet-cat-egypt-cat-sculpture-3201562/
https://pixabay.com/photos/cute-cats-kittens-animals-mammals-3273789/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amuleto_2018-10-032009-19-3420(A2CRadius32CSmoothing2).tif
Museo Egizio, CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bastet_as_cat_headed_woman-AF_9684-IMG_0554-white.jpg
Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/fr/deed.en
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bastet_dame_katzenkopf.jpg
Kotofeij K. Bajun, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gayer-Anderson_Cat_01-black.jpg
British Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Periodo_tardo,_testa_felina,_forse_bastet,_664-332_ac_ca.jpg
Sailko, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Priest_of_Bastet-E_10777-IMG_8019-gradient.jpg
Louvre Museum, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLA_brooklynmuseum_Mother_Cat_with_Kittens.jpg
Brooklyn Museum, CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bastet_with_lion_head-E_3915-IMG_2408-gradient.jpg
Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/fr/deed.en
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BastetNursingKittens_KunsthistorischesMuseum_Nov13-10.jpg
Captmondo, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cat_amulet-E_10661-IMG_9288-gradient.jpg
Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/fr/deed.en
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hildesheim,_Roemer-_und_Pelizaeus-Museum,_Statue_der_G%C3%B6ttin_Bastet.JPG
Dguendel, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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