Bastet Statue Cleo To invite Chango into a

To invite Chango into a room is to acknowledge that life is rarely a quiet affair

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Hand-carved Egyptian Alabaster Cleopatra Lounging statue

Bastet Statue Cleo To invite Chango into aBastet, 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