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Please if you are truly interested in worshiping Bast,
Visit a Sight dedicated to the worship of Bast!
Visit: http://www.per-bast.org/bast/historical.html
I have no ties with this sight, I just want all persons
such as my self to be able to worship correctly.
Merry meet,
Merry meet again.
Blessed Be.
A child some where probably made this unknown
author bed time prayer.
A Cat's Prayer to Bast
As I lay me down to sleep
I pray to Bast my soul to keep,
I pray to Bast my loul to take,
And transport it to the sandy lands
Where my forbears worshiped were,
Where my ancient kin were much revered
And where the cat first learned to purr.
As I pad on velvet feet
I pray Bast will give me mice to eat,
And as I use my litter tray
I ask that she will find me play,
In her bright heaven where all cats,
Are stroked by Bast's most blessed hands,
and bask and gambol in her care,
Remembering Egypt's ancient sands.
As I knead upon your knees,
I hope that Bast is greatly pleased
To see her child at rest and play,
Fed and cared for every day,
and when I reach that glorious place
and gaze upon her feline face,
I'll ask that Bast will grant you grace
To join me in eternal play.
~ Author Unknown ~
PRAYERS/MANTRAS FOR BAST
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a wonderful site for my followers
http://www.per-bast.org/
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~~~~~~~A MANTRA TO HELP US IN DIFFICULT TIMES~~~~~~
Sek-Met
Mother
Devine Godess
I need your
grace in my life
I need the warmth
of your love to fill
my empty vessle
guide me through
these hard times
and direct my actions
so I may be closer to you
Ohm.
Bast.
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Blessed Be
We are thankful for
the bounty provided to us
from you.
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Blessed Be
Give us your daily blessings
as we give your children love.
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Blessed Be
Love to the mother
of our human ways.
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Blessed Be
Guide us your gentle
kiss and spare us your
mighty claws and teeth.
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Blessed Be
Watch over my cat
your child.
Give your worshiper
the healing power divine
to heal "(insert cat name)"
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Blessed Be
My one divine being
I give my praise for the
evening setting of Ra.
Protect me through twilight
hours and wake me with Ra's
powerful light.
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Blessed Be
May I be Blessed
with your feline grace.
Bast
Blessed Be
Cleanse me with your
motherly love.
Bast
Blessed Be
I give thee my
heart, soul, and body
all three.
Bast
Blessed Be
I am your vessel
and you guide me
in the feline ways.
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Blessed Be
Your children are
wanting your motherly love
Thankful for your bountys
given to us each day.
___________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ In Egyptian mythology, Bast (also spelt Bastet, Ubasti, and Pasht) is an ancient goddess, worshipped at least since the Second Dynasty. The centre of her cult was in Per-Bast (Bubastis in Greek), which was named after her. Originally she was viewed as the protector goddess of Lower Egypt, and consequently depicted as a fierce lion. Indeed, her name means (female) devourer. As protectress, she was seen as defender of the pharaoh, and consequently of the chief god, Ra, who was a solar deity, gaining her the titles Lady of Flame and Eye of Ra. Bast was originally a goddess of the sun, but later changed by the Greeks to a goddess of the moon.
Later scribes sometimes named her Bastet, a variation on Bast consisting of an additional feminine suffix to the one already present, thought to have been added to emphasise pronunciation. Since Bastet would literally mean (female) of the ointment jar, Bast gradually became thought of as the goddess of perfumes, earning the title perfumed protector. In connection with this, when Anubis became the god of embalming, Bast, as goddess of ointment, came to be regarded as his mother, although this association was broken in later years, when Anubis became Nephthys' son.
This gentler characteristic, of Bast as goddess of perfumes, together with Lower Egypt's loss in the wars between Upper & Lower Egypt, led to a decrease in her ferocity. Thus, by the Middle Kingdom she was generally regarded as a domestic cat rather than a lionness. Occasionally, however, she was depicted holding a lionness mask, which hinted at suppressed ferocity. Because domestic cats tend to be tender and protective toward their offspring, Bast was also regarded as a good mother, and she was sometimes depicted with numerous kittens. Consequently, a woman who wanted children sometimes wore an amulet showing the goddess with kittens, the number of which indicated her own desired number of children.
Due to the severe disaster to the food supply that could be caused by simple vermin such as mice and rats, and their ability to fight and kill snakes, especially cobras, cats in Egypt were revered heavily, sometimes being given golden jewelry to wear, and being allowed to eat from the same plates as their owners. Consequently, as the main cat (rather than lion) deity, Bast was strongly revered as the patron of cats, and thus it was in the temple at Per-Bast that dead (and mummified) cats were brought for burial. Over 300,000 mummified cats were discovered when Bast's temple at per-Bast was excavated.
As a cat/lion goddess, and protector of the lands, when, during the New Kingdom, the fierce lion god Maahes became part of Egyptian mythology, she was identified, in the Lower Kingdom, as his mother. This paralleled the identification of the fierce lion goddess Sekhmet, as his mother in the Upper Kingdom.
As divine mother, and more especially as protectress, for Lower Egypt, she became strongly associated with Wadjet, the patron goddess of Lower Egypt, eventually becoming Wadjet-Bast, paralleling the similar pair of patron (Nekhbet) and lioness protector (Sekhmet) for Upper Egypt. Eventually, her position as patron and protector of Lower Egypt, lead to her being identified as the more substantial goddess Mut, whose cult had risen to power with that of Amun, and eventually being absorbed into her as Mut-Wadjet-Bast. Shortly after, Mut also absorbed the identities of the Sekhmet-Nekhbet pairing as well.
This merging of identities of similar goddesses has lead to considerable confusion, leading to some associating things such as the title Mistress of the Sistrum (more properly belonging to Hathor, who had become thought of as an aspect of Isis, as had Mut), and the idea of her as a lunar goddess (more properly an attribute of Mut). Indeed, much of this confusion occurred to subsequent generations, as the identities slowly merged, leading to the Greeks, who sometimes named her Ailuros (Greek for cat), thinking of Bast as a version of Artemis, their own moon goddess. And thus, to fit their own cosmology, to the Greeks, Bast was thought of as the sister of Horus, who they identified as Apollo (Artemis' brother), and consequently the daughter of Isis and Osiris.