Bastet Statue Venus_of_Willendorf In Egyptian myth the eye

In Egyptian myth the eye was not the passive organ of sight but more an agent of action

It isn't merely a piece of religious iconography

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

Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who

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

Bastet Statue Venus_of_Willendorf In Egyptian myth the eyeBastet, 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