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Taweret the Goddess of mothers and children in Ancient Egyptian Art
7:38
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Hathor the Cow Goddess of love and beauty in Ancient Egyptian Art
11:38
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Ptah the god of art and creativity in the Ancient Egyptian Art
7:54
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42 laws of Ma'at - The moral code of Ancient Egyptians
5:04
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Horus the falcon god in Ancient Egyptian Art
12:32
The Cat Goddess Bastet in ancient Egyptian Art
6:41
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Tutankhamun's treasures and artworks, Ancient Egyptian Art
8:56
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Amulets of Gods and Goddesses, Ancient Egyptian Art
11:58
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Amulets of Animals, Birds and Hieroglyphic Symbols, Ancient Egyptian Art
10:11
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Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art - Great Painters and Sculptors
7:08
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Goddess Isis in Ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman Art
10:12
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Ancient Egypt as imagined by European Artists - Great Painters
5:45
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Great Pyramid of Giza - The Icon of Ancient Egyptian Architecture
2:48
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Ma'at (Justice) in Ancient Egyptian Art
6:09

The Cat Goddess Bastet in ancient Egyptian Art

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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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