In ancient Greek religion, she was known as Ailuros ( Koinē Greek: αἴλουρος "cat").īastet was worshipped in Bubastis in Lower Egypt, originally as a lioness goddess, a role shared by other deities such as Sekhmet. Her name also is rendered as B'sst, Baast, Ubaste, and Baset. Lioness, cat, ointment jar, sistrum, solar diskīastet or Bast ( Ancient Egyptian: bꜣstjt, Coptic: Ⲟⲩⲃⲁⲥⲧⲉ, romanized: Oubaste /ʔuːˈβastə/, Phoenician: □□□□, romanized: ’bst, or □□□, romanized: bst) was a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion, worshipped as early as the Second Dynasty (2890 BCE). Bastet in her late form of a cat-headed woman (rather than a lioness) holding an ankh and sistrum
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