Later she became the cat goddess that is familiar today. Role in ancient Egypt īastet was originally a fierce lioness warrior goddess of the sun, worshipped throughout most of ancient Egyptian history. Allen instead derives the name as a nisba construction from a place name "Baset" ( bꜣst) with the meaning "she of bꜣst". By the first millennium, then, bꜣstt would have been something like *Ubaste (< *Ubastat) in Egyptian speech, later becoming Coptic Oubaste. In Middle Egyptian writing, the second t marks a feminine ending but usually was not pronounced, and the aleph ꜣ ( ) may have moved to a position before the accented syllable, ꜣbst. James Peter Allen vocalizes the original form of the name as buʔístit or buʔístiat, with ʔ representing a glottal stop. In early Egyptian hieroglyphs, her name appears to have been bꜣstt. Name īastet, the form of the name that is most commonly adopted by Egyptologists today because of its use in later dynasties, is a modern convention offering one possible reconstruction. Eventually Bastet and Sekhmet were characterized as two aspects of the same goddess, with Sekhmet representing the powerful warrior and protector aspect and Bastet, who increasingly was depicted as a cat, representing a gentler aspect. In ancient Greek religion, she was known as Ailuros ( Koinē Greek: αἴλουρος "cat").īastet was worshipped in Bubastis in Lower Egypt, originally as a lioness goddess, a role shared by other deities such as Sekhmet. Her name also is rendered as B'sst, Baast, Ubaste, and Baset. Lioness, cat, ointment jar, sistrum, solar diskīastet or Bast ( Ancient Egyptian: bꜣstjt, Coptic: Ⲟⲩⲃⲁⲥⲧⲉ, romanized: Oubaste /ʔuːˈβastə/, Phoenician: □□□□, romanized: ’bst, or □□□, romanized: bst) was a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion, worshipped as early as the Second Dynasty (2890 BCE). Bastet in her late form of a cat-headed woman (rather than a lioness) holding an ankh and sistrum
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