Bastet

There is no doubt that the Egyptians were among the first nations in the ancient world to have taken great care in their religion and transcended all standards. However, their neighbours and contemporaries in the ancient world had the same interest in matters of their religion, except that the Egyptians were more concerned with matters of faith than their neighbours and differed from their neighbours in their belief that they were direct descendants of the gods. They imagined that Egypt was the land of the gods as it is of man, and the inhabitants of the country had to provide for these gods and sanctify them, in contrast to their neighbours, who were often convinced that the power of the gods was what created them in life.
The Egyptians spent their time in the worship of multiple beings. They worshipped animals, birds and reptiles in all eras. They also attributed to these worships the worship of the forces of nature, and they combined to the forces of nature all these animals and described them all with the word ‘NETER’. One example is the god Bastet.
It is one of the ancient Egyptian deities, which was worshipped in the form of a gentle cat, and was worshipped in the current city of Tel Basta near Zagazig, Sharkia Governorate. Tel Basta was a centre for her worship and was the daughter of the sun god “Ra” and portrayed in the form of a woman with a cat’s head and considered the idol of tenderness and closely related to women. The cat was highly respected in Egypt, so the ancient Egyptian domesticated it and raised it in his home because he noticed that it had caught mice that were destroying grain silos, and the ancient Egyptian was mummifying them as he mummified his dead. Many mummified cats were found in one of the Egyptian tombs, perhaps approaching one million cats, and the mummification was an adult. Precision.
It represented joy, dance, music, and feasts and was represented as an idol of fertility, love and tenderness, and protection for the pregnant woman. The Saqqara region of Babidos, as it appeared as a nanny for the king in the texts of the pyramids and as a protector for the deceased in the texts of the coffins of the Middle Kingdom, and was known as the daughter of Ra and Ain Ra, and was also known as the cat that destroys the snake, the enemy of the sun.