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BASTET - EGYPTIAN SYMBOLS II 3 oz Gilded Silver Coin Palau 2021

BASTET - EGYPTIAN SYMBOLS II 3 oz Gilded Silver Coin Palau 2021

Dazzling Coin Co. on 16th Jan 2022

An incredibly popular deity, as you’d expect from a domestic guardian, she was the daughter of Ra, and over the history of Egypt, changed from a third millennium BCE depiction as lioness-headed, to having the head of a cat some 2,000 years later. It’s easy to understand why Bastet was so popular. Cats keep down vermin, thus protecting grain and stopping the spread of disease. They also protect their young in a highly relatable way. Worship of the goddess faded in the Ptolemaic era, although the Greeks sometimes equated her with their own goddess, Artemis.