Egyptian Cat God Art

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Egyptian cat god art. Bast was known as the goddess of motherhood and fertility. The role of bast. The cat that is included in the scene whose head is partially damaged has been given a golden eye by the artist. She was believed to protect the home from evil spirits and diseases especially those associated with women and children.

Shop unique custom made canvas prints framed prints posters tapestries and more. Her role in the ancient egyptian culture earned more importance than the goddess mafdet over the years. Last summer i remember seeing the small rectangular sarcophagus of the cat of prince thutmose see above at a king tut exhibition. The british museum also has an interesting anthropomorphic coffin of a cat.

Description and meaning bastet is the egyptian goddess of childbirth fertility women s secrets domesticity home and of course cats. Numerous statuettes such as this were made during. In fact since predynastic times egyptian cats were mummified. Cats were praised for killing venomous snakes and protecting the pharaoh since at least the first dynasty of egypt.

Bast was known as the cat goddess in egypt. Due to these associations with gods and their usefulness to egyptians domestic cats were treated well. External links all about bast comprehensive essay by s d. The latter one had the lion head while bast has the cathead.

The cat was sacred to the goddess bastet and was offered in sanctuaries and deposited in animal necropoleis throughout egypt. Extensive cat burials have been found at a few sites including the site of the goddess bastet. Several ancient egyptian deities were depicted and sculptured with cat like heads such as mafdet bastet and sekhmet representing justice fertility and power. This cat has deep cut eyes for the addition of inlay and fine incised lines marking the tufts of hair on the ears and the whiskers.

Facts about egyptian cats 4. The deity mut was also depicted as a cat and in the company of a cat. The iconic image of an egyptian cat arises from objects such as the leaded bronze statuette from the metropolitan museum of art pictured below. The text panel near the fresco explained that the although cats were family pets for the egyptians in this context the cat could also represent the sun god ra or re hunting the enemies of light and order.