Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: What If we met...

From: <chrysaetos_at_avians.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:11:18 -0500

Chris Zygmunt wrote:
> Very true. And not just native american culture. The
> Egyptians had their half-animal gods like Anubis,
> Thoth, and Bastet (I think it was Bastet... hmm... The
> female cat-goddess anyway.)
>
Her name is just "Bast". "Bastet" is a weird little translation error
from the 1800s -- the -et suffix makes a masculine name feminine, but
"Bast" is already feminine so it's not needed.

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