Goddess Bastet Head Bust Statues Da Vinci the protector of Lower Egypt

the protector of Lower Egypt

In classical Egyptian thought

Height: 21cm / 8

the power of "binding and loosing

and this may relate to the nightly travel of the moon across the sky

Goddess Bastet Head Bust Statues Da Vinci the protector of Lower EgyptBeautiful hand crafted Egyptian Goddess Bastet Statue, Made in Egypt Dimensions: Height: 8. 5cm 3. 3 inches Width: 7cm 2. 7 inches Depth: 7. 5cm 3 inches Bastet, 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