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The goddess Bastet.
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The cult of the cat in ancient Egypt.
The goddess Bastet.
"Oh, wonderful cat, granted forever."
The inscription on the obelisk in Nebra, Ancient Egypt.
The Egyptians throughout the history of their existence treated animals with reverent reverence, honoring some of them as shrines.
Cats in ancient Egypt occupied the first places in the hierarchy of such shrines.
Nowhere is a cat more revered than in Egypt.
The Egyptians reduced the complex metaphorical meaning that the world mythology gave to the image of this beautiful intelligent animal to positive, pleasant concepts for the human consciousness – such as kindness, home, fun, love, motherhood, fertility, protective forces.
In ancient Egypt, there was a very significant cult of the cat goddess Bastet( Bast), who was also considered the personification of sunlight and moonlight.
The goddess was depicted as a virgin with a cat's head or in the form of a lioness.
Bastet was considered the daughter of Osiris and Isis.
Prayers were dedicated to this goddess: "She can give life and strength, all health and joy of the heart" or "I am a cat, the mother of life".
In her honor, cats were worshipped, they were mummified, a mouse was placed next to them, so that the cats had something to have fun and eat in the afterlife.
The cult of the cat appeared in the most ancient period of Egyptian history (the second dynasty) and lasted until the 1st century BC.
The religious center of worship was the city of Bubastis, where , according to the Greek historian Herodotus, there was the most beautiful temple in Egypt, dedicated to Bastet.
In the main sanctuary, there was a huge statue of the goddess.
Statue of the goddess Bastet (Bast) in the temple of Bubastis
The great historians of antiquity, Herodotus and Diodorus, wrote in their writings how every year, seven times a year, one hundred thousand priests gathered in the temple in Bubastis for a great commemoration
the divine cat.
During the annual spring festivals, the statue was taken out of the temple and solemnly transported on a boat along the banks of the Nile.
These sacred animals were also bred there, and a large number of cat mummies have been preserved there.
Bast (Bastet)
The cat goddess.
The goddess of the sun, joy and fun.
It represented warmth.
She was considered all seeing and took the place of a guardian under the sun god Ra.
She embodied feminine and maternal qualities: grace, beauty and affection...
Often the goddess was depicted as a woman with the head of a cat, in her right hand she had a musical instrument a sistrum, and in her left a mirror, and at her feet were four kittens.
This is how the Egyptians personified the goddess of fertility.
Bastet (Bast), as a rule, was dressed in a green robe in the images.
Traditionally, it was associated with the sun, fertility and successful childbirth in women.
The Egyptians raised the goddess of fertility to the rank of a national deity.
Bast was the goddess of fire, the moon, childbirth, fertility, pleasure, benevolence, fun, sexual rituals, music, dance, protection from diseases and evil spirits, intuition, healing, marriage and all animals (especially cats).
Bast has two incarnations — a woman with a cat's head (a kind essence) and a lion's (aggressive).
According to other sources in Egypt, the cat was associated with both Bast and Pash (the Moon).
Pasht was the dark aspect of Bast, the Lady of the East, the mother of all cats, the wife of the god Ptah.
Although she was considered the embodiment of the life giving energy and gentle warmth of the Sun, through her sacred cats she was also connected with the Moon.
Bast was also the patroness of children and the guardian of the harvest.
Her statuettes were kept in the houses, which drove away evil spirits.
The beginning of the appearance of the cult of Bastet is the Second Dynasty.
They were worshipped until the first century AD.
Genealogy: Daughter and wife of the sun god Ra, wife of Ptah, mother of Mahesa and Hensu.
Iconography: Depicted as a woman with a cat's head.
Attribute: Musical instrument system.
A sacred animal a cat, reflecting the agility and strength of the goddess.
The sacred cats of Bast itself were black cats; the image of a black cat was placed on their homes by Egyptian doctors as a symbol of their profession.
The image of a cat decorated the sistrum and, sometimes, the mirror of Hathor.
This animal represented the moon.
This cat personified divinity, inaccessible to a mere mortal.
Even the supreme sun god Ra was called the "great cat".
The influence of lighting on the size of the cat's pupil was associated by the ancient Egyptians with the movement of the sun god on a chariot along the heavenly rivers.
And the cat's eyes burning in the dark, according to the beliefs of the Egyptians, emit daylight — the light of a chariot of fire.
The first hieroglyphs that were used to denote the words "cat" and" cat " belong to the fifth and sixth dynasties of the Egyptian pharaohs (about 2300 BC).
Today they are deciphered as "mint" and "miu".
Transcription of the hieroglyphs " miw " for masculine and "miwt" for feminine (in Russian there is a similar onomatopoeia in the verb "meow").
Numerous drawings and figurines depicting cats have come down to us.
The rising sun was personified by a scarab beetle, which was necessarily present on the chest of animals.
In the Heliopolis sanctuary, the symbol of the supreme god was a statue of a giant cat, whose pupils changed depending on the direction of the sun's rays.
The statue, which releases a jet of water every hour, also served to determine the time.
According to legend, the statue of a cat depicted an animal that died in a fight with the evil serpent Apop.
Presumably, the domestication of the cat occurred in Egypt during the III millennium BC.
Before becoming a pet, valued for its softness, grace and carelessness, the cat, first of all, became a protective animal.
Hunting small rodents, they protected the barns where the Egyptians stored their provisions (first of all, wheat), which was vital for this agricultural people.
By hunting rats, cats eliminated the source of serious diseases (such as the plague).
Finally, by hunting snakes (usually horned vipers), they made the surrounding area safer.
At the beginning of the historical period called the Middle Kingdom, Egypt grew into a mighty power.
The basis of this power was grain storage facilities.
As long as they were filled, the country could safely survive a possible flood of the Nile.
This was the finest hour of the rodent - killing cat.
The practical significance of the cat in ancient Egypt was so great that it was during this period that the cat was considered a sacred animal.
The Egyptians deified cats, seeing in them creatures capable of embodying the images of specific gods.
The appearance of a huge cat was taken by the great sun god Ra, who defeated Apop, the serpent of darkness.
His duel with the snake of darkness was depicted by artists as follows: with one paw the cat presses down the head of the snake, and in the other holds a knife.
But the lion headed Bastet became the true goddess of cats.
The Egyptians considered the cat a sacred animal of the goddess Bastet, personifying joy, fun, health and love of life.
Here is what the famous philosopher E. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) writes about the attitude of the Egyptians to the cult of the cat in the book "The Evolution of Symbolism": "They noticed the simple fact that a cat sees in the dark and that its pupils become completely round and especially luminous at night.
The moon was a beholder in the night skies, and the cat was its equivalent on earth....
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 moon, like a cat, was the eye of the sun, because it reflects sunlight and because the eye displays an image in its mirror."
The cult of the cat reached its heyday during the 12th and 13th dynasties of the Egyptian pharaohs (about 1800 BC).
The temple of the goddess Bastet in the eastern part of the Nile Delta became a place of pilgrimage.
The main center of the Egyptians was a huge necropolis near the temple.
Here they buried embalmed dead cats, placing them in decorated sarcophagi along with toys and food (for example, mummified mice) for a long journey to the afterlife.
Not far from Beni Hassan, 180 thousand mummies of cats were discovered.
As a sign of mourning, people grieving for cats shaved their eyebrows.
Egyptians from all parts of the kingdom brought as a gift to the goddess symbols of devotion in the form of small cat figures made of ceramics and bronze.
Bronze figurines of cats are distinguished by the finest modeling of the surface.
Soft contours emphasize the plasticity of the body, an elegant silhouette.
The naturalness and grace of the animal are masterfully conveyed...
Made with love, these figurines are exquisite and at the same time they are reserved, even strict... as if reminding everyone that Bastet is a merciful hypostasis of the terrible lion headed goddess Sokhmet, the daughter of the sun god Ra, who supports Maat universal harmony — and punishes those who violate it.
Figurines of cats, as a rule, were richly decorated by the Egyptians.
The statuettes from the Hermitage have necklaces on their necks, scarabs on the crown and eyes inlaid with gold.
The study of mummies from cat tombs in Bubastit, Siut and Beni Hassan showed that the cats of the Middle Kingdom were subjected to selection (artificial selection): the skeleton, teeth and pigmentation of the coat were already significantly different from those of the original steppe cat.
Egyptian cats were deified.
Magnificent temples were built for them, their bodies were mummified, thousands of pilgrims from all over the country rushed to them.
Egyptian cats have always been surrounded by a mystical halo.
Their eyes were considered windows to another world, and, thanks to their changeability, animals were often compared to the Sun.
The Egyptian priests found many analogies between the nature of the cat and the sun.
First of all, these are the eyes of a Cat.
The sun rises, the pupils of the cat's eyes become smaller.
The sun is sinking towards evening, the cat's eyes are widening.
When the Sun has disappeared, the cat looks at the world with wide pupils, round and luminous.
The cat's eyes are two reduced suns.
The cat's eyes are magical windows to other worlds, in which you can see a lot.
Cats are guests of the world of the dead in our manifested world.
It is believed that a vampire or other dark entity will never set foot in a house where cats live.
The fact is that cats see them...
It is often possible to notice the "oddities" of the cat's behavior when it suddenly freezes and stares intently at some point.
This is how she communicates with the invisible world for us.
In Bubastis, the main center of the Bast cult in Lower Egypt, sacred cats lived in the courtyard of the temple.
It was considered a special honor to take care of them, this right was passed from son to father.
In order to take care of the welfare of the cats living in the temple, a caste of priests was organized.
Bastet's servants held the highest state posts.
A priest accused of unacceptable treatment of sacred cats was severely punished.
The priests carefully watched the cats, trying not to miss the slightest sign they gave... the messages of the goddess Bast, in order to interpret this message later.
A believer seeking the help of the goddess or wishing to make a vow, shaved part of his child's head and took it to the temple.
The hair was put on a scale and balanced with silver.
Then the believer gave this silver to the caretaker of the sacred cats, who cut off the appropriate portion from the fish that served them as food and gave it to the cats.
In the families of ordinary Egyptians, cats were also considered sacred, they were surrounded with care and attention.
The Egyptians loved their domestic cats, which were depicted lying on the lap of the owner or under his seat.
Plutarch describes how carefully the Egyptians were engaged in breeding cats, choosing suitable pairs according to their character.
The sacred cats were fed milk and bread, and fish without scales were specially bred in tanks for them.
Those who attempted to kill cats were severely punished.
The cat was protected by law and anyone who dared to raise his hand against her was threatened with the death penalty.
Cats were called "good spirits of the dwelling".
People everywhere gave way to these graceful animals.
Cats in Egypt were the first to be taken out of houses during fires, and the owners saved them, often risking their own lives.
If a cat died, then its funeral was held with great honors.
After the death of cats, they were buried according to a ritual resembling the burial of a person: the owners of the cat and their relatives shaved their eyebrows as a sign of mourning, and the cat's body was embalmed.
The Egyptians believed that the soul of the hostess of the house after death moves into a cat.
The body of the deceased cat was wrapped in a linen cloth, anointed with herbs and mummified using a balm.
To prevent cats from starving in the afterlife, mummified mice and shrews were placed together with them in the sarcophagus.
The cats of the rich were wrapped in colored linen with intricate patterns.
A mask with ears made of palm leaf stalks was superimposed on her muzzle.
The mummy was placed in a wooden or straw woven box, sometimes decorated with gold, crystal or obsidian.
Even kittens were buried in small bronze coffins.
The most revered cats were those who lived in temples.
Their funerals were sometimes so pompous and expensive that special fees were collected from the population to pay for them.
The sarcophagus with the mummy was placed in one of the countless necropolises specially designed for cats and built along the banks of the Nile.
The mourning lasted for seventy days — the time of the entire mummification.
Sometimes a cat accompanies its owner to the afterlife under the guise of a statuette (or a carved drawing on coffins).
Images of a cat can also be found on numerous vases, jewelry and dishes, as well as on drawings (under the place of a woman, as a protective symbol).
During excavations in the city of Beni Hasan, archaeologists discovered a whole cat cemetery, where one hundred and eighty thousand cats were laid to rest.
However, the large number of discovered cat mummies can also be explained by their small size (it is easier to bury a cat than a bull).
The veneration of the cat did not end at the family level.
It was nationwide.
State laws protected cats as best they could.
For example, it was strictly forbidden to export cats outside the country.
Probably, the Egyptians wanted to be monopolists in the field of cat breeding. :)
However, the forbidden fruit is always sweet.
And the stricter the laws were, the more hunters there were to take the cat out of Egypt.
For the Phoenicians, it even became a matter of honor.
Thanks to the desire to annoy the Egyptians, cats soon spread throughout the Mediterranean.
The Egyptians believed that one cat could bring them 28 kittens in 7 years.
Even if we do not mention her "holiness", the fertile cat had a high material value.
It was a symbol of the prosperity of the Egyptian.
Such a love for cats once turned against the Egyptians.
Knowing that no Egyptian can kill a cat, the treacherous Persians used this in the war with Egypt.
They covered themselves with cats as shields, thanks to which they won.
Some scientists claim that even before the heyday of the culture of ancient Egypt, there was a civilization whose scientific and technological achievements surpassed even the modern level.
However, after natural disasters wiped out a great civilization from the face of the earth, only legends, myths and superstitions remained of it...
Perhaps many people, like me, are interested in the question of the origin of cats.
Where did they come from?
Where is their homeland?
The answer to this question may be here in our memories of the past...
...945 BC.
A small boat is sailing on the calm Nile...
Two figures in white are visible in the boat, they are standing next to each other: a mature man, tall, fit.
He holds on to the high bow of the boat with one hand, putting his other hand on the shoulder of his son, who is still a boy.
They are slowly approaching the magnificent city.
"Father, tell me about this city and why are we and thousands of other people sailing here?"
- "My son!
We are sailing to the beautiful city of Bubastis - our capital, for the annual festival of the cat goddess Bast...
The soft hearted Bast is known for her healing miracles.
She is revered as a cheerful goddess of healing, music, happiness and joy.
Thousands of pilgrims are rushing to the Bubasis festival.
A huge temple was erected in her honor, there is a water channel next to the temple, all the streets intersect at this holy place.
I will teach you the prayer: "Oh, Bast, moon faced, powerful healer, beloved by millions.
Clear in your temple, open your doors before me, illuminate my soul with your light, penetrate deep into my spirit, heal all my ailments... "
Well, here we are, let's hurry to the temple."
The boy is deeply shocked by the extraordinary sight that has opened up to him.
The magnificent temple sparkles in the sun, everyone admires its snow white columns, beautiful details.
Laughter and cheers can be heard all over the neighborhood.
With songs and clapping, the pilgrims ascend to the temple, shaking their rattles a symbol of fertility.
The spouse of the goddess in Bubastis was considered Atum, the son was the terrible Mahes the god of storms and fury, who was revered in the form, again, of a lion.
The goddess was also worshipped in other significant cities of Lower Egypt first of all, in Memphis, where she was identified with Sekhmet, and in Iunu, where she was the daughter of Atum, the solar creator.
It is known that the celebration of the goddess of the cat was held not only in Nizh in Egypt, but also in the south - in Thebes and Esna.
At the main entrance there is a statue of the cat goddess, a goddess who had the power of the Sun and Moon, bringing mental health.
Bast is depicted as a woman with a cat's head, at whose feet kittens are located...
They sell figurines of cats all around, and there are many cats living in the temple.
In order to take care of their welfare, an almost paramilitary caste of priests is organized.
Bast's servants hold government posts.
The duties of the priests include healing, worship, mummification of dead cats.
Priests could be both men and women.
One of the main points of attraction is the colossal necropolis near the temple.
Here they buried the embalmed dead beloved cats, placing them in decorated sarcophagi along with toys and food, which, according to the ancient Egyptians, was necessary in the other world.
The pharaoh himself was present at the ceremonies in honor of the cat goddess.
The ancient Greek historian Herodotus in the V century BC visited the temple in Bubastis, about which he wrote: "There is no temple so pleasant to the eye as this one in Bubatis."
The very first mention of cats is found in the hieroglyphic writing of the ancient Egyptians.
Lions and cats already had their own symbols with the designation "miu" or "Mau".
About 2.5 thousand years BC.
e. in the inscriptions of the pyramids of the V and VI dynasty of the pharaohs, there are symbols denoting cats - this was the heyday of their cult.
The cult of cats was so great that it lasted for more than 2 thousand years and was abolished only in 390 AD.
Each city of ancient Egypt had its own totem, i.e. the guardian deity.
The cat had several cities where it was revered above other gods.
May dog lovers forgive me, but although the dog was one of the favorite animals of the Egyptians, it was never considered a deity.
And the Egyptian god Anubis the conductor of the souls of the dead - when examined in detail, still had the head of a jackal.
As for the cat, it was and is the real defender of man from invisible forces.
The ancient Egyptians, Tibetans, Tahitians and other peoples of the past, who possessed wisdom and knowledge, were well aware of this fact.
Anyone who wants to look into the history of ancient Egypt will immediately notice special attention to animals from the cat family.
An ancient legend says: "Shining Ra (the risen Sun) sailed in his solar canoe through the heavens from east to west, taking care to avoid meeting with the serpent Apop (the darkness of ignorance), who was later defeated by the daughter of Ra the cat goddess Bast."
From all the above, it follows that in the thinking of the Egyptians, the cat gods, and, in particular, Bast, had a very special meaning.
The Egyptians looked at the cat not only as a beloved creature, but as a representative of the deity.
And so they treated her with respect and reverence...
The God Anubis
..then what they received from her had a different quality, carried more purity and light, she became a transmitter of divine energies for them.
At the same time, these goddesses were considered as guardians of the area, property, and the carved statuettes had a deep symbolic meaning.
The Greeks called these sculptural images "sphinxes".
This is the name of the immortal cat, which appeared in 1966 in Ontario, Canada, for its similarity to ancient Egyptian figurines and those cats that in those distant times "guarded" the pyramids and the pharaohs.
The cat, associated with femininity and mystery, became a favorite inhabitant of temples and houses for the Egyptians.
The cat was so popular among the Egyptians that among the populations of the Nile coast, theophoric names were widely distributed, which included the name of the goddess Bastet, for example, Padibast – "The one whom Bastet gave", Tashenubast – "The daughter of Bastet", Nachtbastetru – "Strong Bastet against them", Ankhbastet - "May Bastet live".
The oldest images of a cat in a religious context (amulets made of bone or faience) were found in the Badari necropolis and date back to the end of the Ancient Kingdom.
Wearing them on the body provided constant protection from any dangers...
Later, cats appear on the so called magic wands of the Middle Kingdom era, which were made from the bone of a hippopotamus and were intended to protect the premises and, especially, the pregnant hostess of the house.
Images of strange demonic creatures, spirits and animals have been preserved on their surface, among which a cat sometimes appears – the exterminator of evil, personified in the form of snakes.
In its front paws, the cat often holds a knife designed to cut off the heads of enemies, just like the great sun cat in Iunu.
Throughout the history of Egypt of the Pharaohs, the cat has never exhausted its symbolic image of a defender, sometimes also associated with healing...
In these cases, the cat is depicted with some lion features, which clearly indicates its formidable role and that as a peaceful inhabitant of the house and a universal favorite, it got along in the guise of the goddess Bastet with the fierce lion headed patroness of the king, whose name was first mentioned on a stone vessel from Sakkara, which preserved the name of the king of the II dynasty Hetepsehmui.
The symbolic connection between the cat and its fearsome fellow lion is present, centuries later, on the false doors in the Theban tombs of the nobles of the XVIII dynasty Kenamon and Amenemhat Surer, who guard the cats symmetrically depicted above the doorway to the other world, the guardians of the boundary of two spaces.
This role in Egyptian art was more often occupied by lions or hybrid creatures with a lion's body sphinxes.
The consonance between the verbal designation of a cat (miit) and the name of Maat, the goddess of truth, may have led to the fact that in a number of late bronze figurines of sacred cats, the image of the goddess becomes part of the animal's necklace, and her sacred feather is a symbol, according to the shape of which the thin wool inside the cat's ears was stylized.
Images of cats are often found on ritual objects associated with various hypostases of Hathor, in particular on the sistra, where she appears as the embodiment of the Heliopolitan goddess Nebetkhetepet, associated with the sexual energy of the creator God, transformed into a goddess.
In this context, the cat clearly appears as a symbol of fertility, sexuality and attractiveness.
The connection between the cat and the lioness – two aspects of the formidable and predictable nature of the female deity was strongly emphasized.
So, one of the statuettes depicts a lion headed Sekhmet sitting on a throne and putting her feet on the prostrate figures of captive foreigners, while the cat Bastet sat on their feet.
The childbearing functions of Bastet, often surrounded by kittens, and her sexual power were the keys through which the goddess became the peaceful and affectionate mother of the king, the protector of those lost in the night and, in general ,the" reverse "side of Sekhmet, echoing the words of the famous "Ankhsheshonk's Teachings":
"When a man smells of myrrh, his wife is like a cat in front of him.
When a man is in suffering, his wife is like a lioness in front of him."
The same Ankhsheshonk, probably hinting that the character of the cat is unpredictable and its transformation into Sekhmet is very fast, reminds:
"Donot laugh at the cat."
The cult of cats that existed in Egypt also touched other countries.
So, traces of its influence can be found in Gaul, in particular in Toulouse, where amulets, statuettes, musical instruments sistra with the image of cats were found (local archaeological finds date most likely to the I century BC), and in Great Britain: in Badbury, Gassed, All Saints and Danbury, archaeologists excavated mass graves of cats.
Egyptian artists have depicted hundreds of cats on tomb slabs and papyrus.
They sculpted them from bronze, gold, stone and wood, made them from clay, carved them from ivory.
Young Egyptian women wore amulets with images of cats, which were called "utchat" and were a symbol of fertility.
The girls prayed to the gods for the fulfillment of the desire to have as many children as kittens are depicted on their amulet.
A cat is an amazing creature.
There is no animal with a more complex character and such a contradictory and rich history.
At first she was worshipped as a deity, then they saw her as a servant of the devil, and now she is an idol again.
In terms of numbers, the cat will soon become the most popular pet on Earth.
Even the laziest domestic cat is a natural hunter.
"I am a cat that walks by itself."
With these words, Kipling immortalized the inherent spirit of independence of the cat.
Let her live in our house, accept our way of life, but she allowed herself to be tamed only on her own terms.
And was the domestic cat really tamed?
The Egyptian mau (mao) is considered the oldest natural breed in nature.
It has every right to be considered a direct descendant of the first domesticated cats of ancient Egypt.
In Egypt, a person and a cat are connected by a long standing bond.
She was worshipped as a goddess even before she became a domestic.
For more than a millennium, she was a national deity.
The worship of cats goes back to an era even more distant than the times of the sphinxes with their human head and the body of a lion.
PS: Since I just adore cats and I really like everything related to the culture of Ancient Egypt, as one of the most mysterious countries of the Ancient World, I decided that there will be a lot of cats in my diary, various, for every taste and a lot of Egyptian themes.
So do not blame me for some monotony of topics... but this is for now... since my interests are not limited to cats and Egypt.
But, unfortunately, there is not enough time for everything you want yet...
A series of messages "The story of a cat":
Part 1 The story of the birth of a small miracle Part 2 - The cult of the cat in Ancient Egypt.
The goddess Bastet.
Part 3 The Divine vennye cats in ancient culture and their mistresses Part 4 The cult of the cat in Mesopotamia Part 5 - The history of cats in the UK: success tragedy worship ...
Part 6 - The history of cats in the East: is there no more ancient?
A series of messages "The Cult of the cat":
Part 1 - The cult of the cat in Ancient Egypt.
The goddess Bastet.
Part 2 Divine cats in ancient culture and their mistresses Part 3 - The cult of cats in Mesopotamia Part 4 - The history of cats in Great Britain: success tragedy worship ...
Part 5 - The history of cats in the East: is there no more ancient?
A series of messages "Egypt":
Part 1 THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS Part 2 WILL THE SPHINX SPEAK?
Part 3 The Egyptian initiation ritual Part 4 - The cult of the cat in Ancient Egypt.
The goddess Bastet.
Part 5 - AND THE" KEY " IS FAKE.. (3.12.2012)
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