This goddess is one of only two recorded on the façade of Khafre's temple in Giza, where she represe
This goddess is one of only two recorded on the façade of Khafre's temple in Giza, where she represents the north and particularly her eponymous cult site in the eastern Delta. Worshipped as early as the Second Dynasty, she was later equated with Mut in Thebes, where she was dubbed the "lady of Asheru." This protector goddess of Lower Egypt is arguably the most commonly-accepted mother of Mahes, a god who assumed her early warlike form. Her cult was a complement to the Upper Egyptian worship of Sekhmet, with whom she seems to have merged to produce the deity Pakhet. Given a name meaning "tearer" or "renderer of flesh," FTP, name this goddess uniquely represented ►as a domesticated cat.
This goddess is one of only two recorded on the façade of Khafre's temple in Giza, where she represents the north and particularly her eponymous cult site in the eastern Delta.
{Bast} (or Bastet, Ubasti, Ubastet, Pakhet)