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Bast, one of the number of feline deities in Egypt, has been around since at least the Second Dynasty. Most people know Her as being depicted as a house cat or being the goddess of domesticated cats. But that didn't come around until thousands of years after the Egyptians started worshipping Her. Her earlier depictions are that of a women with either a lion or desert cat head.

Bast started out as a protector of the king and was one of the goddesses that held the title of "Eye of Ra". Later her image started softening and she became known as the protector of children and pregnant women and She became associated with Het Hert, Mut, and Aset. She also started becoming invoked to bestow fertility making Her even more associated with Het Hert. Because of Her close relationship with Her, Bast started picking up some of Het Hert's associations, such as music and art. Another one of Bast's associations was with perfume.

Now notice how I didn't say she was a lunar goddess? That's because that association came about after the Greeks came to Egypt and associated Bast with Artemis. When the Greeks started associating Egyptian deities with their own many of the deities it started giving the Egyptian deities relations that They didn't have before. As such, Bast became Aset's daughter and Heru's twin sister.

Because of the foreign influance during the New Kingdom, people started leaving off the "-t" at the end of words when they talked. So to try to stop that from happening scribes started adding an extra "-t" on the end of words. This is where the name Bastet comes from. It was the scribes trying to tell the people that its "Bast" and not "Bas".

Epithets
Devouring Lady
Lady of the East
The Light Bearer
Lady of Truth
Goddess of the Birth Chamber
Tearer
Mistress of Bubastis
Lady of the Life of the Two Lands
She Who protects the Two Lands and the Akhu
Invisible Paw
Northern Hethert
Goddess of Family and Home
Lady of Perfumes
The Great
Giving all life
Who creates the Transformation in the Field
The One who is over the secrets of Atum
Lady of the shrine
Pre-eminent in the Field-of-the-God
Lady of heaven
Mistress of all the gods
Mistress of the Two Lands
Mistress of Pr-ns(r)t
W't (the unique) who has no peer
Mehnet who is over..[text lost]..
The Goddess Wnet
Giver of Valor
The Goddess Wsert
The Daughter of Re
Bast, the Nurse
Eye of Ra
The Fiery One

Common Offerings
Food/Drink
Caramel
Chocolate
Chocolate liqueur
Cinnamon
Cool water
Edible flowers
Ice cream
Limes
mead
Milk
Naan bread
Peppermint
Plum wine
Red meat
Roast or barbecued meat
sake
Sushi
Tea
Vanilla

Items
Mirrors
Bells/Chimes
Knives and Swords
Books
Stationery
Stained-glass
Mechanical things such as grandfather clocks
Motorcycles
Jewelry
Perfumes
Bottles
Feather
Fountains
Seashells

Stones
Amber
Aventurine
Bornite
Cat's eye
Copper
Hematite
Labradorite
Malachite
Opal
Tiger's eye

Scents
Cinnamon Leaf
Jasmine
Lavender
Lotus
Rose
Sandalwood
Vanilla

Colors
Green
gold
black
jewel tones

Flowers
roses
lotus
lily
daisies
edible flowers
sunflowers

Source: Per Bast
Wepwawet.org

I wrinkle my nose when I see people spell Her name "Bastet" xd It's like "that's not necessary any more! When you do that people just add an extra syllable when they read it!"

I side with iKill on the name thing. And that was way before I learned why it was added in the first place.
But I don't like using the Greek names often anymore anyway. *shrug*

Personally, I see nothing wrong with using the Greek names. I just don't like using them mainly because when someone says Horus that can mean like 5 different gods.