Feline Friday & Caturday : My black cat Midnight of the golden eyes

Caturday : Midnight of the golden eyes

 

My black cat Midnight thinks the Egyptian Cat Goddess is awesome

Midnight hops up next to me on the chair to see what I’m looking at on my laptop.

 

“Hey!” Midnight meows, “That cat looks just like me! The fur is black and the eyes are gold.”

“It’s more like you look like that cat.  She predates you. It’s the Egyptian Goddess Bastet and that statue is more than 2000 years old.”

Midnight purrs.  “I always knew humans should worship me. She’s probably my great great great great …. a bunch of of greats … grandmother.”

I look at Midnight. “You do whatever you want.  I bring you food and water. Lay out the cat litter.  Set out toys for you.  How many humans do you want to serve you?”

Midnight stretches out for a nap, curling behind me on the chair (nudging me forward by the way so now I’m only half on the chair), “I’m going to dream of a world humans bringing me offerings of mice. Wouldn’t that be perfect?”

“Ewwww! Not to this house!”

From Wikipedia:

“As protector of Lower Egypt, (the Goddess Bastet) was seen as defender of the king, and consequently of the sun god, Ra. Along with other deities such as Hathor, Sekhmet, and Isis, Bastet was associated with the Eye of Ra.[7] She has been depicted as fighting the evil snake named Apep, an enemy of Ra.[8] In addition to her solar connections, sometimes she was called “eye of the moon”.[9]”

7. Darnell, John Coleman (1997). “The Apotropaic Goddess in the Eye”. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur. 24: 35–48. JSTOR 25152728.

8. Pinch, Geraldine (2002). Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 130.

9. Wilkinson, Richard H. (2003). The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. p. 176

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Blog hops & Link ups:

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Happy Caturday at Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty

You can use the Amazon search bar to do any search at Amazon. As you can see, I did a search on “Bastet” which today returned a plushie and some statuettes. On another day, I’m curious what else will show up. Midnight liked this statue because it had gold eyes like his : Egyptian Bastet Collectible Figurine. I preferred the Egyptian Cat Goddess Bastet Decorative Bookends, Set of 2. Perfect for my cat books. And I loved the Bastet Egyptian Cat Goddess T-Shirt but I prefer shirts with pockets. Now that I’m working, what’s really pulling me is the jewelry. My pierced ears have grown over but I often wear necklaces. For some reason, while cat brooches often show up at thrift stores (and yes, I usually get them when I come across them so I have a few), I haven’t found cat necklaces. Midnight thinks I should just laminate his photo and wear that as a necklace, lol.

I like this one and the price is perfect but no reviews makes me a little nervous.	I like the Goddess Bastet paired with the wing. Four reviews and they all loved it. One person hung it on the wall as a memorial to her cat instead of wearing it as a necklace.	Nothing to do with the Goddess Bastet. I just thought it was cute and it does have Egyptian wings on it and a couple of reviews to boot. A lot of the Bastet necklaces had no reviews which I would prefer at least one. Many of them are resin necklaces like this one so it’s making me want to try making resin necklaces with Pinkie’s and Midnight’s photos.

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