Bastet Statue Cleo Octopus Skull

Octopus Skull

Hand-carved Egyptian Alabaster Cleopatra Lounging statue

To invite Chango into a room is to acknowledge that life is rarely a quiet affair

the amulets were intended to protect the dead from all that was harmful in the afterlife

paving the way for the imperial system

Bastet Statue Cleo Octopus SkullBastet, 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