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Bastet The Cat Goddess
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Thu, 19/08/2010 - 22:54 — Valentina Zhitanska
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"The cat is mysterious, mysterious and close to everything that is not given to a person to comprehend.
The Sphinx is her cousin, and they speak the same language, but the cat is older than the Sphinx and remembers what he has already forgotten" - so the American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft wrote in the story "Cats of Ultar".
The plot of Lovecraft's story is as follows :" A caravan of wanderers comes to the small town of Ultar.
A boy from the camp, an orphan Menes, plays with a black kitten - the only creature close to him.
In a remote hut, under old trees, an old man and an old woman live, who hate cats.
On the third day, Menes ' kitten disappears.
The boy in despair offers a strange and incomprehensible prayer to the Gods.
After the caravan leaves, the Ultar cats kill the sinister old men."
The "dark skinned wanderers", among whom Menes was, resemble the Egyptians in their description: "their carts were decorated with strange figures with a human torso and with the heads of cats, falcons, rams and lions."
Who was this boy who bore the name of the legendary Pharaoh Menes the founder of the I dynasty, who united Upper and Lower Egypt?
Perhaps, since that time, the Egyptians began to honor the cat as the Goddess Bast, decorating the tombs of the pharaohs with hieroglyphic inscriptions with the meaning "cat" - "MAU" or "MIU".
Bast or Bastet was among the ancient Egyptians the Goddess of joy, fun and love, female beauty, fertility and home.
She was depicted as a cat or a woman with a cat's head.
During the early dynasties, she was depicted as a lioness.
The statues of Bast were decorated with jewelry.
The sun, the mother Hathor the Moon, the sister - the Goddess of the Sky Nut, the brother the God healer Khonsu.
The son of Bastet Mahes is the God of thunderstorms, storms, darkness and wind.
The center of the cult of Bast, the heyday of which belongs to the XXII Libyan dynasty of the Bubastids, was the city of Bubastis - the "Sanctuary of Bastet" - the capital of the XX Lower Egyptian nome.
A huge cat necropolis at the foot of the hill, on which the temple of the Goddess Bastet stood in the era of the New Kingdom, was discovered by archaeologists at the end of the XX century in the east of Sakkara.
A huge cat necropolis at the foot of the hill, on which the temple of the Goddess Bastet stood in the era of the New Kingdom, was discovered by archaeologists at the end of the XX century in the east of Sakkara.
In the tombs of the nobles of the New Kingdom, carved into the rocks, archaeologists have found many skeletons and mummies of cats.
Tens of thousands of animals were buried in the catacombs of Bubastion.
In the Egyptian "Book of the Dead" it is said that Ra in the form of a red cat under the sacred sycamore tree in Heliopolis defeated the huge serpent Apop - the lord of the underworld, who personified darkness and evil, and cut off his head.
In ancient Egypt, celebrations were held annually in honor of Bast, which were accompanied by singing and dancing.
Bubastis was famous for its holidays, where more beer was drunk in one day than in the whole of Egypt in a year.
Therefore, Bast was associated with divine intoxication, dancing and music.
The attribute of Bast was the musical instrument sistr.
The goddess of fertility was often depicted as a woman with the head of a cat, holding a sistrum in her hands, four kittens were located at her feet.
The ancient Egyptians identified Bast with the Goddesses Mut, Sekhmet, Tefnut and Hathor.
Like Sekhmet, Bast was called the Eye of Ra.
Bast Ba Ast - "the soul of Isis".
At a later time, the cult of Bast became closer to the cult of Isis.
In the temples of Isis, cats were usually kept.
In Europe and the Middle East, cats appeared after the construction of the temples of Isis.
In one of the centers of worship of Bastet - Heliopolis, a huge statue of a cat was built, which expanded and narrowed the pupils depending on the position of the Sun.
The pharaohs performed sacrifices in the temple of Bastet.
The priests took care of cats as temple animals.
During the Bast holiday, lion hunting was prohibited.
Since the time when cats began to be identified with Bast, they began to be mummified.
From the description of the Greek historian Herodotus, it is known that the Egyptians rushed into burning houses to make sure that there was not a single cat inside.
In memory of the deceased cat, the owners were in mourning, shaved their eyebrows as a sign of grief, and the crowd threw stones at the driver who accidentally ran over the cat.
All family members took part in the ceremony of embalming and burying the bodies of cats, on this occasion regular pilgrimages were made to Bubastis, where the priests performed the burial ceremony.
In the grave of the cat, they put food and toys.
The Egyptians treated the Gods not just as spirits, but as intelligent incarnations that could transform into any creature or object.
This explains the historical fact of the capture of the Persian king Cambyses in 525 BC of the fortress city of Pelusium.
The king for a long time besieged the city, which was called "the key to the Nile valley", and was forced to retreat, but a Greek soldier defector offered Cambyses a trick: live cats were tied to the shields of the soldiers, and the Egyptians did not dare to use their spears and arrows for fear of injuring the sacred animals.
The splendidly defended city was captured by the Persians without bloodshed.
In 2010, during archaeological work in Kom - El - Dikka, a place near Alexandria, the remains of the temple of Queen Berenice - the wife of one of the most powerful rulers of Egypt of the Hellenistic dynasty - Ptolemy III Euergetes were discovered.
A cache was found in the temple, in which archaeologists found up to 600 statues of the Ptolemaic period, including statues belonging to the Goddess Bastet.
The temple in Kom El Dikka is the first temple of the Ptolemaic period known to science, dedicated to the cat Goddess Bastet.
The temple was built during the reign of Queen Berenice, with whom the legend about the origin of the name of the constellation "Veronica's Hair"is connected.
According to legend, Berenice cut off her beautiful hair and placed it in the temple in gratitude to the Goddess for her husband's victory over the Syrians.
The next day, the priest astronomer Konon informed the royal couple that the sacrifice was accepted, and he observed a new constellation in the form of female braids at night.
So says an ancient Egyptian legend.
And such is the mysticism of the events of my life:
* when I visited Egypt for the first time in 1996, I felt the spirit of this ancient land of pharaohs and mysteries, realizing that one of my previous lives was spent in Egypt;
* I published my first articles on the site under the pseudonym " Bastet";
* after breaking my right hand in June 2010 in Egypt, I cut off my long hair and burned it on the shore of the Red Sea, making a sacrifice to the ancient Egyptian Gods;
* after breaking my arm, I started publishing articles under my name "Valentina Zhitanska".
Is it an accident or a pattern?
I think that everything that happens to us happens exactly when it is necessary.
The French physicist Regi Dutey has developed a theory according to which not only the past, present and future are collected here and now, but also all our lives, previous and future, take place simultaneously with our current life in the superluminal dimension.
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Blavatsky on the cult of the cat in Ancient Egypt
Skarlet - 23 Jan 2012-20:53
Elena Blavatsky in the Secret Doctrine (part II "The Evolution of symbolism") wrote about the attitude of the Egyptians to the cult of the cat:
"They noticed the simple fact that the cat sees in the dark, and that her pupils become completely round and especially luminous at night.
The moon was a beholder in the night heavens, and the cat was its equivalent on Earth; and thus the ordinary cat was accepted as an expression, as a natural emblem and a living reproduction of the Moon…
And from this it followed that the Sun, looking down into the underworld, during the night, could also be called a cat, as it was, because it also saw in the dark.
The cat was called in Egyptian "mau", which means sighted, from the verb "mau" - to see... the Egyptians imagined a big cat behind the Sun, which was the pupil of this cat's eye."
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A Buddhist cat from South Korea
Valentina Zhitanska - Nov 19, 2011-22: 37
A Buddhist cat lives in the Longxing Temple, which is located in the city of Shangzhou in South Korea.
The abbot of the temple found a wounded cat in front of the entrance to the temple, cured it and gave it the name Tseto (Liberation).
When the cat recovered, the abbot told her that she could stay in the temple, provided that she would not eat meat, kill living creatures and make loud noises.
For 4 years of living in the sacred temple, the animal has never violated these rules.
Tourists have repeatedly tried to seduce the cat with fragrant meat and fish, but she has never taken food from them.
Several times on the territory of the temple, the cat managed to catch mice, but she always gave them to the monks alive.
Every day, in the morning and in the evening, a Buddhist cat comes to the Buddha statue and lies down in front of it, crossing his paws.
This pose of the animal clearly resembles the welcoming gesture of the monks "He shi".
At each visit to the Buddha statue, the cat sits motionless for several hours a day and stares intently, almost without blinking, at his face.
The Buddhist Cat (part 1)
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Bastet
geolo1987 (not verified) - 24 May 2011-01: 23
I believe that the topic is not sufficiently disclosed.
I propose a discussion.
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Bastet Sekhmet - the lioness woman
alecs62 (not verified) - 6 Jan 2012 - 03: 40
And it seems to me that it is enough and in full.
Bastet has two incarnations — a woman with a cat's head (a kind essence) and a lion's (aggressive).
It is believed that, being in the second form, Bast turns into Sekhmet a lioness (you remember that Bast was first depicted as a lioness?), who once almost destroyed all of humanity.
It was believed that the father of Bastet was the Sun; the mother was Hathor the Moon.
Nut, the goddess of heaven — is her sister, and her brother is Khonsu, who exorcises evil spirits.
The word "Bast" consists of the ancient Egyptian word " bas-" and the feminine ending "- t".
The ancient Egyptians did not record vowel sounds, so we will probably never know how the word "Bast" Bastet actually sounded.
The cat goddess.
Bast or Bastet - in ancient Egypt, the goddess of joy, fun and love, female beauty, fertility and home, who was depicted as a cat or a woman with a cat's head.
Even before the cat was tamed, Bast was depicted with the head of a lioness, but everything changed when the cat became a sacred animal.
Bastet was often depicted with a systrom a musical instrument.
Bast was often represented as a woman with the head of a cat, holding a sacred sistrum in her hands, with four kittens at her feet.
They even dedicated a temple to the goddess Bast in Bubastes (the city is named after Bast).
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