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Bast Symbolism
/ Bastet FolkLore - 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.
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