Bastet
c. 2900 BCE – 400 CEattested
Bubastis
- Egyptian
Cat goddess of Bubastis, protector of the home, who began as a lioness and softened over two millennia. Her festival drew enormous river-borne crowds, and her cemeteries hold hundreds of thousands of mummified cats.
Known for
- lioness turned cat
- protector of the household
- the mummified cat cemeteries
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.