Bastet Statue Venus_of_Willendorf and truth represented as a

and truth represented as a young woman

Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who

she was said to be "more clever than a million gods"

Duamutef usually was depicted on coffins and as the lid of canopic jars

and this giant of a god also gave his name to a huge mountain range in northern Africa

Bastet Statue Venus_of_Willendorf and truth represented as aBastet, also called Bast, ancient Egyptian goddess worshipped in the form of a lioness and later a cat. The daughter of Ra, the sun god, Bastet was an ancient deity whose ferocious nature was ameliorated after the domestication of the cat around 1500 BCE. She was native to Bubastis in the Nile River delta but also had an important cult at Memphis. In the Late and Ptolemaic periods large cemeteries of mummified cats were created at both sites, and