Bast Jewelry - Egyptian Goddess
Available in 14k Gold or Sterling Silver.
Egyptian Goddess Charm , Earrings , Pierced Navel Ring
Please see Bastet symbolism information below.
Item # 1875 - Measurements: 14 x 10 mm
Bast Symbolism / Bastet FolkLore -
Egyptian Goddess
Bast is the Egyptian Goddess and protector of cats, women and children.
She is Goddess of the sunrise, love, fertility, birth, music and dance.
Bast is the Goddess
of the moon and possessor of the Utchat. The all seeing eye of her brother
Horus.
Her scared city is Bubastis, was in lower Egypt (the northern part). Bubastis
signifies "The House of Cats"
in ancient Egyptian. Bast feast day is celebrated on October 31. The Egyptians
celebrated the feast of Bast with merry making, music, dancing, drinking
much like our modern Marti Gras. Bast is often shown holding a sistrum
(a type of rattle), during the celebrating, worshipers shuck a sistrum.
Bast has a twin sister name Sekhmet. Together the twin sisters formed
the "Yin
Yang" of Egyptian religion. Bastet being the positive force and
Sekhmet being the destructive force. Bast is depicted in art many ways,
the most common is the body of young woman with the head of a domestic
cat. (Her sister, Sekhmet is shown with the head of a lioness). Another
popular form of Bast, is her earthly form, a seated cat, when in this
form her name changes to Bastet. Bast's sacred color is green.