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[Priscilla]

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[Priscilla]

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Name: Bastet

God: Bastet

Gender: Female

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Human Appearance: Bastet is 5'1" with marble like porcelain skin, Silver dusted Onyx hair that flows in soft mellifluous waves to her lower back and cascades around her Heart shaped face that was blessed with a well-shaped nose and slightly full blushing lips that set off her deep Emerald eyes. She’s gone from almost too thin to a slender muscular built of a dancer do to the physical training she has had that also awoke a new grace in her. There are light sign of her weapons training on her elegant petite hands and her nimble feet that are lightly callused which can easily be concealed. She is normally wearing black skinny jeans that’s worn with a peasant like shirt of the same color which is often adorn with black and sapphire bodice. She’ll then round out her attire with a leather jacket with a slightly faded panther whose eyes glow emerald and black boots. This attire will only change if it's completely needed.


God Appearance: This is the only way I can describe it:
This would be her normal goddess form:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/71/a0/eb/71...

This is her as the Eye of Ra/ Warrior form:
http://hzweb.hi-rezgame.net/smite-web...

Here is an alternate form of hers:
https://img00.deviantart.net/a582/i/2...

History: (History of the human, not the god.)

Binding Ritual: (How was the god bound in human form? Example; Calypso was bound by nine magical pieces of eight.)

Powers: (In human form): She can turn into a small cat and a panther. She can

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Weapons: (Either form.)

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[Priscilla]

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Bastet
Responsible For: Joy, Music, and Dancing! Also Health and Healing

Totemic Form: Cat
Bastet (also known as Bast) was the cat goddess, whose cult centered in Bubastis in the region of the Nile delta. It's small wonder so many dancers are drawn to name their studios after Bastet or acquire artwork featuring her--she was the goddess of joy, music, and dancing! Rituals honoring Bastet included light-hearted barge processions and orgiastic ceremonies. She also protected humans against contagious diseases and evil spirits. Her cult can be traced back to about 3200 BC, and she became a national deity when Bubastis became the capital of Egypt in about 950 BC.
One legend said Bastet accompanied the sun god Ra's boat of a million years on its daily journey through the sky, and at night she fought Ra's enemy, the serpent Apep. In art, Bastet is depicted as either a cat-headed woman carrying a sistrum and basket, or as a whole cat. Often, in either form, there are kittens at her feet.
If you plan to do a portrayal of Bastet, consider wearing a red costume--a priestess of Bastet, like the goddess herself, was known as "the Lady with the Red Clothes".

Bast: The goddess of cats, also known as Pascht, Baset-Ra and Bastet, daughter of Ra, wife of Ptah, mother of Mihos. She represents life, family, music, dancing, pleasure and joy. She is shown either as a woman with the head of a cat or the seated Sacred Cat holding in it's paw a rattle. She is also associated with the night and the moon.

Bastet
it is a goddess of Egyptian mythology, also denominated Bast, whose mission was to protect the home and symbolizes the joy to live, because it considers the deity of the harmony and the happiness. This goddess appeared like a woman with cat head or like a cat. It represents the personification of hot rays of the Sun and exerted his beneficial powers. The aspect pacific of dangerous goddesses like Sacmis incarnated, that expressed the maleficent qualities of the Sun.

Like eye of Atum, she was associate to the moon and it protected the births and to the pregnant women of the diseases and the bad spirits. One is like a pacific goddess, but when one gets upset is transformed into a woman with lioness head, assimilating itself to the Sejmet goddess. Some times he appears like daughter of Ra or Atum, taking like mother to Hathor or Tefnut. In other occasions, trìada with Atum or Mahes "The Lion of Ferocious look" like spouses, and with Horhekenu like son forms.
From the Old Empire, she is the mother of the king, to whom it helps and it protects to reach the sky. In honor to this goddess in the city of Bubastis the Celebration of the Embriaguez was celebrated “”, where wine in abundance was consumed, it was danced and it was made sound music. This celebration was made so that the Bastet goddess was contents and flattered, and in this way did not take the aspect from a infuriated lioness.



Bastet- She is the Egyptian goddess of cats, hearth, and of joy, music, and dancing. She is the daughter of Ra, the sun god. She is also his protector as the eye of Ra by transforming herself into a cat (renown for its superb night vision) to guard her father from Apep (also known as Apophis), a serpent. She is also one of the few goddesses of the sun, that are also of the moon, with her glowing cat's eye reminding us of the moon that it reflects. She is visiting Mount Olympus to help lead both gods and mortals alike threw the darkness.
Bastet
Definition

by Joshua J. Mark
published on 24 July 2016

Bastet is the Egyptian goddess of the home, domesticity, women's secrets, cats, fertility, and childbirth. She protected the home from evil spirits and disease, especially diseases associated with women and children. As with many Egyptian deities, she also played a role in the afterlife as a guide and helper to the dead although this was not one of her primary duties. She was the daughter of the sun god Ra and is associated with the concept of the Eye of Ra (the all-seeing eye) and the Distant Goddess (a female deity who leaves Ra and returns to bring transfromation).
MEANING OF BASTET'S NAME
Her name was originally B'sst which became Ubaste, then Bast, then Bastet; the meaning of this name is not known or, at least, not universally agreed upon. Geraldine Pinch claims that "her name probably means She of the Ointment Jar" as she was associated with protection and protective ointments (115). The Greeks associated her closely with their goddess Artemis and believed that, as Artemis had a twin brother (Apollo) so should Bast. They associated Apollo with Horus, the son of Isis (Heru-sa-Aset) and so called the goddess known as Bast ba'Aset (Soul of Isis) which would be the literal translation of her name with the addition of the second 'T' to denote the feminine (Aset being among the Egyptian names for Isis).
Bastet, however, was also sometimes linked with the god of perfume and sweet smells, Nefertum, who was thought to be her son and this further links the meaning of her name to the ointment jar. The most obvious understanding would be that, originally, the name meant something like She of the Ointment Jar (Ubaste) and the Greeks changed the meaning to Soul of Isis as they associated her with the most popular goddess in Egypt. Even so, scholars have come to no agreement on the meaning of her name.
Bastets & Sekhmets
ASSOCIATIONS
Bastet was extremely popular throughout Egypt with both men and women from the 2nd Dynasty (c. 2890 - c. 2670 BCE) onward with her cult centered at the city of Bubastis from at least the 5th century BCE. She was first represented as a woman with the head of a lioness and closely associated with the goddess Sekhmet but, as that deity's iconography depicted her as increasingly aggressive, Bastet's images softened over time to present more of a daily companion and helper than her earlier forms as savage avenger. Scholar Geraldine Pinch writes:
From the Pyramid Texts onward, Bastet has a double aspect of nurturing mother and terrifying avenger. It is the demonic aspect that mainly features in the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Dead and in medical spells. The "slaughterers of Bastet" were said to inflict plague and other disasters on humanity. One spell advises pretending to be the 'son of Bastet' in order to avoid catching the plague (115).
BASTET IS SOMETIMES RENDERED IN ART WITH A LITTER OF KITTENS AT HER FEET BUT HER MOST POPULAR DEPICTION IS OF A SITTING CAT GAZING AHEAD.
Although she was greatly venerated, she was equally feared as two of her titles demonstrate: The Lady of Dread and The Lady of Slaughter. She is associated with both Mau, the divine cat who is an aspect of Ra, and with Mafdet, goddess of justice and the first feline deity in Egyptian history. Both Bastet and Sekhment took their early forms as feline defenders of the innocent, avengers of the wronged, from Mafdet. This association was carried on in depictions of Bastet's son Maahes, protector of the innocent, who is shown as a lion-headed man carrying a long knife or as a lion.
In Bastet's association with Mau, she is sometimes seen destroying the enemy of Ra, Apophis, by slicing off his head with a knife in her paw; an image Mau is best known by. In time, as Bastet became more of a familial companion, she lost all trace of her lionine form, and was regularly depicted as a house cat or a woman with the head of a cat often holding a sistrum. She is sometimes rendered in art with a litter of kittens at her feet but her most popular depiction is of a sitting cat gazing ahead.
Bastet
ROLE IN RELIGION & ICONOGRAPHY
Bastet appears early in the 3rd millenium BCE in her form as an avenging lioness in Lower Egypt. By the time of the Pyramid Texts (c. 2400-2300 BCE) she was associated with the king of Egypt as his nursemaid in youth and protector as he grew. In the later Coffin Texts (c. 2134-2040 BCE) she retains this role but is also seen as a protector of the dead. The scholar Richard H. Wilkinson comments on this:
In her earliest known form, as depicted on stone vessels of the 2nd dynasty, Bastet was represented as a woman with the maneless head of a lioness. The iconography of the goddess changed, however, perhaps as her nature began to be viewed as milder than that of other lioness deities (178).
Her cult center at Bubastis in Lower Egypt became one of the richest and most luxuriant cities in Egypt as people from all over the country traveled there to pay their respects to the goddess and have the bodies of their dead cats interred in the city. Her iconography borrowed from the earlier goddess Mafdet and also from Hathor, a goddess associated with Sekhmet who was also closely linked to Bastet. The appearance of the sistrum in Bastet's hand in some statues is a clear link to Hathor who is traditionally seen carrying the instrument. Hathor is another goddess who underwent a dramatic change from bloodthirsty destroyer to gentle friend of humanity as she was originally the lioness deity Sekhmet whom Ra sent to earth to destroy humans for their sins. In Bastet's case, although she became more mild, she was no less dangerous to those who broke the law or abused others.
Egyptian Cat
THE TALE OF SETNA & TABOUBU
The Tale of Setna and Taboubu (part of the work known as First Setna or Setna I) is the middle section of a work of Egyptian literature composed in the Roman Period of Egypt's history and currently held by the Cairo Museum in Egypt. The main character of the Setna tales is Prince Setna Khaemwas who is based on the actual prince and High Priest of Ptah Khaemweset (c. 1281 - c.1225 BCE) the son of Ramesses II. Khaemweset, known as the "First Egyptologist", was famous for his restoration and preservation efforts of ancient Egyptian monuments and, by the time of the Ptolemaic Period, was greatly revered as a sage and magician. Although the story may be interpreted in many different ways, Geraldine Pinch argues that this section of the tale can most clearly be understood as an illustration of how Bastet punishes transgressors.
In this story young Prince Setna steals a book from a tomb, even after the inhabitants of the tomb beg him not to. Shortly afterwards he is in Memphis, near the Temple of Ptah, when he sees a beautiful woman accompanied by her servants and lusts after her. He asks about her and learns her name is Taboubu, daughter of a priest of Bastet. He has never seen any woman more beautiful in his life and sends her a note asking her to come to his bed for ten gold pieces but she returns a counter-offer telling him to meet her at the Temple of Bastet in Saqqara where she lives and he will then have all he desires.
Setna travels to her villa where he is eager to get to the business at hand but Taboubu has some stipulations. First, she tells him, he must sign over all his property and possessions to her. He is so consumed with lust that he agrees to this and moves to embrace her. She holds him off, however, and tells him that his children must be sent for and must also sign the documents agreeing to this so that there will be no problems with the legal transference. Setna agrees to this also and sends for his children. While they are signing the papers Taboubu disappears into another room and returns wearing a linen dress so sheer that he can see "every part of her body through it" and his desire for her grows almost uncontrollable. With the documents signed he again moves toward her but, no, she has a third demand: his children must be killed so that they will not try to renege on the agreement and embroil her in a long, drawn-out court battle. Setna instantly agrees to this; his children are murdered and their bodies thrown into the street. Setna then pulls off his clothes, takes Taboubu, and leads her quickly to the bedroom. As he is embracing her she suddenly screams and vanishes - as does the room and villa around them - and Setna is standing naked in the street with his penis thrust into a