18k Gold Bastet Pendant Tea Lights particularly the source of the

particularly the source of the Nile

often referred to as “The Preserver” within the Trimurti

The crisp definition of the flowing beard and the anatomical precision of the torso reflect a figure who has spent several millennia being the focal point of human supplication and is quite comfortable with the scrutiny

and the completion of sacrificial offerings to deities

and the renewal of life

18k Gold Bastet Pendant Tea Lights particularly the source of theHand made in Egypt with love! 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 delta but also had an important cult at Memphis. In the Late and Ptolemaic periods large cemeteries of mummified cats were