<P> Bastet, the form of the name that is most commonly adopted by Egyptologists today because of its use in later dynasties, is a modern convention offering one possible reconstruction . In early Egyptian, her name appears to have been bꜣstt . In Egyptian writing, the second t marks a feminine ending, but was not usually pronounced, and the aleph ꜣ () may have moved to a position before the accented syllable, ꜣbst . By the first millennium, then, bꜣstt would have been something like * Ubaste (<* Ubastat) in Egyptian speech, later becoming Coptic Oubaste . </P> <P> During later dynasties, the deity remained, but was assigned a lesser role in the pantheon by bearing the name Bastet . This happened after Thebes became the capital of ancient Egypt, during the Eighteenth Dynasty . As they rose to great power the priests of the temple of Amun, dedicated to the primary local deity, advanced the stature of their titular deity to national prominence (Amun - Ra) and shifted the relative stature of others in the Egyptian pantheon . Diminishing her status, they began referring to the deity with the added suffix, as Bastet, and their use of the new name was well - documented (thereby becoming very familiar to modern researchers). By the Twenty - second Dynasty the transition had occurred in all regions . </P> <P> What the name of the goddess means, remains uncertain . One recent suggestion by Stephen Quirke (Ancient Egyptian Religion) explains it as meaning, "She of the ointment jar". This ties in with the observation that her name was written with the hieroglyph for ointment jar (bꜣs) and that she was associated with protective ointments, among other things . The name of the material known as alabaster might, through Greek, come from the name of the goddess . This association would have come about much later than when the goddess was a protective lioness goddess, however, and is useful only in deciphering the origin of the term, alabaster . </P> <P> Bast was originally a fierce lioness warrior goddess of the sun throughout most of ancient Egyptian history, but later she was changed into the cat goddess that is familiar today, becoming Bastet . Even later, Greeks occupying ancient Egypt toward the end of its civilization changed her into a goddess of the moon . </P>

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