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| Cult evokes prehistoric standing stone circles as well as hieratic Egyptian cat sculpture-in ancient Egypt, the cat goddess Bastet was the patroness of family happiness. Mindful of the imperial lineage of Cairo's felines, Chittock photographed tabbies posing next to plaster statuettes of the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet and the catheaded Bastet. Each urn is topped with an exquisite head that is an interpretation of figures from Egyptian mythology - the sloe-eyed cat-goddess Bastet and the dignified canine deity, Anubis. |
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