18k Gold Bastet Pendant

18k Gold Bastet PendantHand made in Egypt with love! Bastet, 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

Bastet Statue - Ancient Egyptian Cat Goddess Bastet Statue - Altar StatueDimensions: Height: 13cm / 5

and wholeness in ancient Egyptian culture

referred to by Egyptologists as the Amarna Interlude

and the sun

Nubia by David Roberts

or as a woman with the head of a Cat

illustrating the couple's connection with and reverence for the natural world

adding a touch of grace to every journey you embark upon

her multifaceted persona allows her to seamlessly transition from the realms of the divine to the human

legislative authority

the New Year

making Osiris an eternal symbol of resurrection and immortality