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Bastet
Jan 17, 2007 14:30:05 GMT -5
Post by Lt Colonel John Sheppard on Jan 17, 2007 14:30:05 GMT -5
Bastet - Egypt - The goddess Bastet was usually represented as a woman with the head of a domesticated cat. However, up until 1,000 B.C. she was portrayed as a lioness. Bastet was the daughter of Ra, the sun god. It may have been through him that she acquired her feline characteristics. When Ra destroyed his enemy Apophis, he was usually depicted as a cat. As portrayed as a cat, she was connected with the moon (her son Khonsu was the god of the moon). When shown as a lioness, she is associated with sunlight. Bastet was the goddess of fire, cats, of the home and pregnant women. Bastet seemed to have 2 sides of her personality, docile and aggressive. Her docile and gentle side was displayed in her duties as a protector of the home, and pregnant women. Her aggressive and vicious nature was exposed in the accounts of battles in which the pharoah was said to have slaughtered the enemy as Bastet slaughtered her victims. Bastet - Egypt - A member of the Goa'uld System Lord, Bastet did not come to power until the Goa'uld's second ruling dynasty collapsed. Bastet, admitting to suffering heavy losses against Anubis, voted to allow the powerful Goa'uld back to his former position as a Systerm Lord. (Summit, Last Stand)
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