Bast

Bast is the Netjer of joy, perfume, and cats.

Offerings

I usually wear my Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Bastet perfume for her, which is also kept on the altar.

• Perfume
• Sistrum
• Dancing
• Catnip
• Fish
• Calcite
• Alabaster
• Onions (be careful if you have a pet cat! Onions are toxic to them)
• Beer
• Water
• Bread
• Beef

Epithets

• She with great Strength
• Eye of Ra
• The Lady of the Breath of Life
• Lady of Splendor
• Lady of Life
• The Lady of Pleasure
• The Lady of Jewelry
• The Lady of Jubilation
• Lady of the East
• The Lady of Terror
• Lady of Bubastis
• Lady of Heaven
• The Lady of Dread
• The Lady of Slaughter
• Beautiful of face
• Great goddess
• She who creates the rays
• Guardian, protector
• The Great She
• Who rises in the Horizon
• Great in Bubastis
• Who drives out darkness
• Who protects her Father, who is in Fayum
• Who rises in the horizon
• The lady of heaven
• The lady of heaven and earth
• The lady inside the solar disk
• Who rises in the horizon
• Who rises as the Golden One
• The faces (= the people) see because of her sunbeams
• The Lady of Light
• Who illuminates the faces with her rays
• The Mistress of Splendor
• Who dispels darkness
• Who creates the rays
• The Lady of the East
• Who enters the hill for herself
• The Mistress of Cities
• The Mistress of all the Lands
• Female ichneumon
• Female vulture
• Young lioness
• Who gives birth to goddesses on her command
• The Lady of Life
• She gives life to those who go on her way/path
• The Mistress of the Breath of Life
• She with great strength
• The Mistress of the Run/Course
• She with the swift gait
• She with many faces
• She with many forms
• She with many appearances in the land of god
• The Mistress of Manifestations
• She with perfect face
• She with pleasant scent
• The Mistress of the Red Linen
• The Mistress of Jewelry
• The Mistress of the Binding
• The Eye of Ra
• The Eye of Heru
• She with great Bas
• Who inflicts a massacre against the crooked-hearted
• Whose flame comes out against her enemies
• Who protects her father, Ra
• The Mistress of Joy
• The Lady of Offerings
• Who is protected by the falcon
• Who is protected by the gods
• The Ruler
• Who is on her Throne
• The mother of the gods
• She with great popularity
• The gods and people rejoice at the sight of her
• The Great One
• She with great authority
• She with many names
• The Magnificent and Mighty One
• The Great First One
• The Unique One of the Protectors of her Father
• There is no one like her
• The Unique Mistress
• Who is over the secret
• She with the secret form
• The Golden One
• Whose defense does not exist
• Her Father cools her heat (her anger)
• She with great terror; The Mistress of Terror
• The Mistress of Carnage
• The Fiery/Flaming One
• Who sends out the knife demons
• The Mistress of Messengers
• Who is above those who drive out the darkness
• The Powerful One
• She with the powerful heart
• Who has power over all the gods
• The Mistress
• The perfect mistress
• The mistress of all the gods
• Who is over all the gods
• The Foremost of the Goddesses
• The Eye of Ra
• The Eye of Heru; The Great Eye of Heru
• The Eye of Atum
• Who delights Ra with the beat of her fingers (The Musician)
• She with many festivals
• The Mistress of the Sed Festival
• Who is in the midst of her barque
• The Mistress of the Box
• Her shape is exalted in the secret box
• The Lady of Food
• Who opens the perfect year; The Mistress of the Beginning of the Year
• The Lady of Labdanum
• The Lady of the Udjat Eye; The Lady of the Two Udjat Eyes
• The Goddess

References

• Celebrating the Egyptian Gods by Sharon LaBorde
• The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson
• Per Bast
• Seshkemet

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