36+ The Egyptian Cat Goddess PNG. Woman of the time would buy amulets of this goddess illustrated with different numbers of kittens, representing the number of children they wished to have. Bastet is merely the bastardized name of bast.
The ancient egyptians certainly shared a proclivity for domesticating cats, and this cultural affinity was mirrored by the native egyptian mythology and religion that popularized the worship of bastet (or bast), at least since the second dynasty period (post 29th century bc).
Start by marking egyptian cat goddess: Bastet or bast (ancient egyptian: Egyptian limestone cat statue photograph courtesy egyptian supreme council of antiquities this limestone feline is among some 600 cat statues from a newfound temple dedicated to the egyptian cat goddess bastet. Topher and his father are trying to get over the death of topher's mother, an egyptologist, when they take in a stray cat.
