Egyptian Deities 4 Piece Set - Features one statue each of these four Egyptian Deities Bast, Isis, Anubis and Sekhmet. Statues range in sizes from 3 1/2" - 1 1/2" tall by 2 " - 1 1/2" wide. Colorings are black, gold and some red. Mostly black and gold. Fine facial details as well as Inscribed markings and hieroglyphs.
About these Deities: (Left to Right)
Sekhmet is depicted as being a woman with the head of a lioness. The Patron of divine retribution, vengeance and conquest. Sekhmet means "The Mighty One," and she was one of the most powerful of the gods and goddesses. Sekhmet was the goddess who dished out divine punishment to the enemies of gods and of the Pharaoh. Known sometimes as "The Eye Of Ra" she accompanied the Pharaoh into battle, launching fiery arrows into the battle ahead of him. Sekhmet could also send plagues and disease against her enemies but was also invoked at times to avoid plague and cure disease.
Isis is known as a beautiful woman in magnificent clothing, sometimes shown wearing the sun disk. She has almost no variant forms. Patron of women, mothers, children, magic, medicine and the ritual of life.
Isis is depicted as what may be the oldest deity in Egypt, Isis form or shape has also survived the ages as well as her importance. Isis was worshiped universally by all Egyptians a major goddess of of the Egyptians pantheon, she was revered as the great protector, prayed to for guidance and beseeched for peace in the world.
Anubis is an incredibly ancient god, and was the original god of the dead before Osiris "took over" the position. After that point, Anubis was changed to be one of the many sons of Osiris and the psychopomp (conductor of souls) of the underworld. His totem of the jackal is probably due to the fact that jackals would hunt at the edges of the desert, near the necropolis and cemeteries throughout Egypt.
Anubis is dipicted as a man with the head of a jackal-like animal. Unlike a real jackal, Anubis' head is black, representing his position as a god of the dead. He is rarely shown fully-human, but he is depicted so in the Temple of Abydos of Rameses II. There is a beautiful statue of him as a full jackal in the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Bast Patron of the sun (originally) the moon (after the Greeks), cats, women and secrets. A desert cat, or a woman with the head of a cat (this form possibly dates after the domestication of the Egyptian wild cat).
Bast is probably the most famous Egyptian goddess after Isis, Bast was said to be the daughter of Ra, though long after he created the primal gods. She was originally a sun goddess, but after contact with the Greeks, she changed to a moon goddess, probably due to the Greeks associating her with Artemis.
