Bastet or Bubastis was the Greek name for Tell Basta Egypt also known as Per-Bast, Per-Bastet or Per-Pasted, home of goddess lion- headed Bast or the cat goddess Bastet actually she had two deferent ways to write her name as well two figures to represent her as centuries and millenniums passed by and her characteristics changed.

This city also is identified by the name Phibeseth in the Christian Bible, book of Ezekiel 30-17.

Tell Basta is located in the Eastern Delta of the Nile River south of Tanis where today the modern city of Zagazig is.

Its origin is probably older that the “Great pyramid of Pharaoh Kheops”; Micerino the builder of the third pyramid al Giza built a Temple in Bubastis in honor to one of his daughters.

Per Bast became capital of Egypt in the10th century BC, during the “Third Intermediate Period” that is when Shoshemg I, the first Libyan ruler of the twenty-second Dynasty moved the capital from Tanis, He also placed his son as the High priest at Karnak Thebes reducing the power of the high priests and restored the Kinship control; Tell Bast gained full splendor during the Twenty-third dynasty as a commercial and place of ritualistic celebration.

Bubastis also is famous by having an enormous for cats burial ground joined to a human’s cemetery, in the north side of the temple complex a few hundred thousands cats’ mommies were found in this peculiar resting place by a scientific expedition.

The cat was highly considered in Egypt, this animal saved their recollected crops form mice and rats as well also protected them from venomous serpents like the cobras whose bite is highly mortal.

The influence of this city lasted after the Greco Roman period and practically ended after the Persian conquest, Cambyses II BC who killed the Apis bull at Memphis, also destroyed this city about the year 525 BC.

Bast during the Greek period was associated with their lunar goddess Artemis daughter of Zeus and sister of Apollo nevertheless for the Egyptians she was a solar goddess daughter of Ra, together with her sister Sekhmet, the ladies of fire represented the eyes of Ra; whereas the lioness goddess Sekhmet represented the fury of the sun, Bast portrayed the warmest side of the sun; one was the avenger of the enemies of Ra and the other the protector of the eye of Ra against the evil.

This two goddess where also associated with the ancient Egyptian goddess Uatchet or Uadjet and Nekhebet the goddess of Lower and Upper Egypt represented by a serpent and a vulture.

Bast was also the lady of perfumes, a perfume pot hieroglyph was also used to write her name for this reason she is thought to be the wife of god Anubis who helped to embalm the body of Osiris using perfumes. Bast as well at times is represented with a sistrum in her had linking her to the goddess Hathor the wife of Hero or Horus and she appears as the mother of Nefer Tem.

Bubastis was famous for to being the main cult centre of the cat goddess Bast, it was the center of annual festivities that people use to come in boats playing musical instrument or singing and clapping their hands from all over Egypt by numbers of hundred of thousands to have excessive drinking without limits and had sex with whoever as pleased.