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Bastet (Ancient Egyptian: bꜣstt), also known as Ubasti, [a] or Bubastis, [b] is a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion possibly of Nubian origin, worshipped as early as the Second Dynasty (2890 BC). In ancient Greek religion, she was known as Ailuros (Koinē Greek: αἴλουρος, lit. 'cat'). Bastet was worshipped in Bubastis in Lower ...
In ancient Egypt, cats were represented in social and religious scenes dating as early as 1980 BC. [ 2 ] Several ancient Egyptian deities were depicted and sculptured with cat-like heads such as Mafdet, Bastet and Sekhmet, representing justice, fertility, and power, respectively. [ 3 ] The deity Mut was also depicted as a cat and in the company ...
Aker – A god of Earth and the horizon [ 3 ] Amun – A creator god, patron deity of the city of Thebes, and the preeminent deity in Egypt during the New Kingdom [ 4 ] Anhur – A god of war and hunting [ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ] Aten – Sun disk deity who became the focus of the monolatrous or monotheistic Atenist belief system in the reign of Akhenaten.
Sekhmet. In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet (/ ˈsɛkˌmɛt / [1] or Sachmis / ˈsækmɪs /, from Ancient Egyptian: 𓌂𓐍𓏏𓁐, romanized: Saḫmat[2][3]; Coptic: Ⲥⲁⲭⲙⲓ, romanized: Sakhmi) is a warrior goddess as well as goddess of medicine. Sekhmet is also a solar deity, sometimes given the epithet 'the eye of Ra '. She is often ...
Nefertem (/ ˈnɛfərˌtɛm /; possibly "beautiful one who closes" or "one who does not close"; also spelled Nefertum or Nefer-temu) was, in Egyptian mythology, originally a lotus flower at the creation of the world, who had arisen from the primal waters. [2] Nefertem represented both the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian ...
English: Bastet, Cat-headed Goddess of Egypt, Albert Hall Museum, JaipurBastet was the goddess of protection, pleasure, and the bringer of good health. She had the head of a cat and a slender female body. Bastet was the daughter of Ra, sister of Sekhmet, the wife of Ptah, and the mother of Mihos.
Heqet (Egyptian ḥqt, also ḥqtyt "Heqtit"), sometimes spelled Heket, is an Egyptian goddess of fertility, identified with Hathor, represented in the form of a frog. [ 1 ] To the Egyptians, the frog was an ancient symbol of fertility, related to the annual flooding of the Nile. Heqet was originally the female counterpart of Khnum, or the wife ...
Nekhbet (/ ˈnɛkˌbɛt /; [ 1 ] also spelt Nekhebit) is an early predynastic local goddess in Egyptian mythology, who was the patron of the city of Nekheb (her name meaning of Nekheb). Ultimately, she became the patron of Upper Egypt and one of the two patron deities (alongside Wadjet) for all of Ancient Egypt when it was unified.