Bastet’s Family Tree

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Family

• Ptah(spouse),Maahes(child)— Consort

  Ptah and Bastet were joined as divine consorts at Memphis and Bubastis, and from their union came the lion-headed war god Maahes, fierce protector who inherited his mother's feline nature and his father's creative power.

  ⚠ Bubastite tradition names Bastet as Maahes's mother, while Leontopolis and Upper Egyptian sources attribute him to Sekhmet. Both traditions agree on Ptah as father.

• Ra(parent)

  Bastet was born a daughter of Ra, one of the divine felines who served as the sun god's protector and the living embodiment of his burning eye.

Aspect of

• Eye of Ra

  Bastet the cat goddess manifests as the gentler, domestic aspect of the Eye of Ra, representing the Eye's protective warmth rather than its scorching fury.

• Sekhmet

  Sekhmet the raging lioness and Bastet the graceful cat are two faces of the same feline power — the scorching fury of the Eye of Ra gentled into the warmth of the hearth, the wild made tame.

Slew

• Apophis

  In the Book of the Dead, Bastet in the form of the Great Cat of Heliopolis slays Apophis beneath the sacred ished tree with a knife, dismembering the chaos serpent.

  ⚠ Book of the Dead Ch. 17 identifies the slayer as the 'Great Cat' (miu aa); scholars debate whether this represents Ra in feline form or Bastet specifically.

Associated with

• Shu,Thoth

  Bastet, raging as the distant Eye of Ra, fled to the deserts of Nubia, and Thoth journeyed south to coax her home with stories and flattery while Shu's cooling winds tempered her solar fury on the road back to Egypt.