THEORY
GOD RE-ENVISIONED
GUARDIAN BASTET
By Jorg van der Velden
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m starting to discern a pattern. In this edition of
God Re-envisioned ANOTHER goddess loses her Physical prowess
I
promise that next month
eventually became the protector
the ferocious spirit of hunters.
a Magical god(dess) will
of the Chief god of the Egyptians,
This changed when Upper
lose their Arcane abilities! This
Ra. This position as guard of the
and Lower Egypt merged into one
time the change might be the
pantheon’s sun god earned her
single nation, because most gods
biggest yet, as I’m turning sneaky
the titles ‘Lady of Flame’ and ‘Eye
and goddesses who had similar
Bastet into a beefy Guardian.
of Ra’. Bastet was depicted as
portfolios merged into one being.
a lioness, or as a woman with a
This was not the case with Bastet
well (kitties OP right?) finds her
lioness’ head, because lions were
and Sekhmet, her Upper Egyptian
roots in the earliest dynasties
the greatest hunters in Africa.
counterpart. Sekhmet maintained
of Ancient Lower Egypt. She
They hunted in packs made up
her ferocious role as goddess of
was a fierce lioness goddess of
solely of female members, and
war as Upper Egypt had won the
war whose main purpose was
from that Bastet derives the
war prior to the unification. Bastet
protecting the Pharaoh, and
protective nature of mothers and
lost a lot of her ferocity and started
The Bastet we know all too
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