Bastet Statue egyptian statue He decreed

He decreed

and the inescapable weight of the sky

Width: 7cm / 2

Father of many stars and a protagonist in one of Hercules’ famous labours

Hand-carved Egyptian Alabaster Bowl

Bastet Statue egyptian statue He decreedBastet, 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