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The Egyptian goddess Bastet. Drawn for Creatuanary.

life imitates art

A personal depiction of the Ancient Egyptian god, Khonsu-Heru.

Mafdet, Ancient Egyptian goddess of justice and protector against venomous creatures, destroys the serpent of entropy.

Dua Bast! Lady of the Perfumes, Lady of Bubastis, Eye of Ra (by me, 2020)

Artwork by Tara Antoinette. 2019.

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While researching her, I came across information that she was sometimes depicted as a woman with a snake or two snakes for a head, but I can’t seem to find any images of statues or reliefs with this.  I’d be curious to see one, but outside of searching her name, searching the location of her temple, and her Greek name, I can’t find anything but modern depictions of as much.

Lord of Strife

Sekhmet, who holds back darkness and who’s breath created the desert.

Baast & Sobek

Histoire de l'art chez les anciens, 1801 

The ceiling of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, decorated with exquisite astronomical representations. It is one of the best-preserved temple complexes in Egypt.

Osiris attends to a soul leaving the body of the deceased. The history, principles and practice of symbolism in Christian art. 1892. 

5th hour of the Amduat, Inside the cave the god Sokar holds a multiwinged serpent, from the burial chamber of the tomb of Thutmose III (KV34). Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.

Horus, Sky god, in his form of sacred falcon. Copy by Howard Carter (1874-1939) of a painted scene from the “Temple of Millions of Years” of Hatshepsut at west Thebes • Bibliothèque Infernale on FB *In Memoriam of Herr Günter Dreyer (1943-2019), egyptologist at the German Archaeological Institute