Goddess Bastet

Goddess Bastet name

Goddess Bastet

Goddess Bastet was a goddess of ancient Egypt, whose Theophany was the cat, Bastets cult substance was at Bubastis. She was the defender of pregnant women and was a pleasance loving goddess who didst  as  the  patronne of music and dance. Bastet was also believed to protect men from diseases and ogres. The goddess was seen the prosopopoeia of the white rays of the sun on the Nile. She was usually represented as a woman with a cats head, holding a Sistrum and the symbolisation of life, the Ankh.

The goddess remained popular throughout  Egypt even to Roman sentences. Her festivals at  Bubastis  were between the most well-attended solemnizations in Egypt. People set out in festooned lighters, and music attended all who made the pilgrimage to her shrine.  The festival was a time of jokes as well as another shown period of drunkenness. A gigantic parade culminated the festivity, and on that day few Egyptians were sober. Shrines of the gods were erected in Rome, Pompeii, Nemi, and Ostia.

Other Roles of Bastet:

• Bastet and Connection to Other Deities
• Goddess Bastet Festivals
• Bubastis, The Loacation of Bastet's Cult

Goddess Renpet

Goddess Renpet name

Goddess Renpet was a goddess of the Egyptian year, and the Egyptian word for year, Renpet was very frequent in the late periods of Egypt. She was described as a woman wear various symbols of works and harvests. In some eras she was consociated with the solar cult of Sopdu, named Sirius, the Dogstar, by the Greeks. Sopdu signaled  the coming flood of the Nile each year.

Goddess Pakhet

Goddess Pakhet name

Goddess Pakhet

Goddess Pakhet was a lioness-goddess worshipped in particular at the capture of a wadi in the eastern desert near Beni Hasan (close to El-Minya). Her name  is very resonant of her nature, thinking she who snatches or the tearer. In the Coffin Texts Pakhet the Great is named as a night-huntress with strong hooks.

It is easy to see Greek settlers seeing in Pakhet device characteristics of  Artemis, goddess of the chase. Speos Artemidos (cave of Artemis) grown  the  common designation of Pakhets rock-chapel near Beni Hasan, sliced out of the limestone in the 18th Dynasty under Queen Hatshepsut and King Thutmose III.