Bastet Statue Warrior captures the grace and regal

captures the grace and regal beauty of Nefertiti

He is perhaps best known to us now in his Celtic aspects of the untamed Horned God of the Animals and the leaf-covered Green Man

he was thought to be the creator of the bodies of human children which he made at a potter’s wheel from clay and placed in their mothers’ wombs

Along with the Scorpion Macehead and the Narmer Maceheads

On the slopes of Mount Carmel

Bastet Statue Warrior captures the grace and regalBastet, 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 created at both sites, and