Beautiful Egyptian Bastet Cat Memorial Urn Canopic Jar Sculpture Intricate

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Beautiful Vintage Egyptian Bastet Cat Memorial Urn Canopic Jar Sculpture Intricate Design. Shipped Safely And Promptly Via USPS Priority Mail.
Makes A Great Gift And An Excellent Compliment To Any Decor!!
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Made from high quality cold cast resin with bronze powder finish
Approximately 65-70 square inches of storage space
Dimensions: H: 10" x W: 5" x L: 5"
Easy to remove lid that can be sealed with silicon adhesive gel or strong glue.
A beautiful memorial to honor your beloved companion
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Bastet
is the
Egyptian
goddess of the home, domesticity,
women
's secrets, cats, fertility, and childbirth. She protected the home from evil spirits and disease, especially diseases associated with women and children. As with many deities in
Egyptian religion
, she also played a role in the afterlife.
She is sometimes depicted as a guide and helper to the dead although this was not one of her primary duties. She was the daughter of the sun god Ra and is associated with the concept of the Eye of Ra (the all-seeing eye) and the Distant Goddess (a female deity who leaves Ra and returns to bring transformation). Bastet was one of the most popular deities of ancient
Egypt
as she was the protector of everyone's home and family.
Meaning of Bastet's Name
Her name was originally B'sst which became Ubaste, then Bast, then Bastet; the meaning of this name is not known or, at least, not universally agreed upon. Geraldine Pinch claims that "her name probably means She of the Ointment Jar" as she was associated with protection and protective ointments (115). The Greeks associated her closely with their goddess
Artemis
and believed that, as Artemis had a twin brother (
Apollo
) so should Bast. They associated Apollo with
Horus
, the son of
Isis
(Heru-sa-Aset) and so called the goddess known as Bast ba'Aset (Soul of Isis) which would be the literal translation of her name with the addition of the second 'T' to denote the feminine (Aset being among the Egyptian names for Isis).
Bastet, however, was also sometimes linked with the god of perfume and sweet smells, Nefertum, who was thought to be her son and this further links the meaning of her name to the ointment jar. The most obvious understanding would be that, originally, the name meant something like She of the Ointment Jar (Ubaste) and the Greeks changed the meaning to Soul of Isis as they associated her with the most popular goddess in Egypt. Even so, scholars have come to no agreement on the meaning of her na
me.