In a message dated 2/15/2007 8:20:00 PM Central Standard Time,
chrysaetos_at_avians.net writes:
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.
Also "Anubis" is not the god of embalming's true name. It was "Anup" or
"Anpu" either's accessible.
-Claw MacKain, lone half-god lion bounty hunter =^_^=
Received on Fri Feb 16 2007 - 19:24:13 CST