Bastet Statue Christian Mini He was in turn protected

He was in turn protected by the goddess Serket

The ceremony involved a symbolic animation of a statue or mummy by magically opening its mouth so that it could breathe and speak

In the home

meaning "adoring his motherland"

Bastet Statue Christian Mini He was in turn protectedBastet, also called Bast, ancient Egyptian goddess worshipped in the form of a lioness and later a cat. The daughter of Ra, the sun god, Bastet was an ancient deity whose ferocious nature was ameliorated after the domestication of the cat around 1500 BCE. She was native to Bubastis in the Nile River delta but also had an important cult at Memphis. In the Late and Ptolemaic periods large cemeteries of mummified cats were created at both sites, and