The Cat Mummies at The British Museum

Bastet, the cat-goddess,who was the patroness goddess against the evil and the bad spirits, accordingly to Book of the Dead. She is seen often in the Book of the Dead while slaying the evil -snake "Abuphis", also she transforms and reincarnates into seven instars, each has a function. May be that made the modern Egyptians to describe the cat to have seven lives. Bastet also was the goddess of magic and her cult was settled in the Nile delta at the north of Egypt. The onomatopoeic name for the cat in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs is "mew" which in way or another had been transferred to the western languages! The British Museums keeps a marvelous collection of cat mummies and mummy cases that date back to 1900-1000 B.C, most of it were brought from Tel Basta cat cata-combs at the Nile Delta. Copyrig © 2006