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the angel of the veil
" representing eternal life and omnipotent vitality
As a skilled diplomat
Width: 30cm / 12 inches
His sacred duties include protecting tombs
Bastet Statue Tutankhamun_Papyrus the angel of the veilBastet, 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
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