March 24th, 2015
Today is Egyptian day in my class. We have to go dressed as an ancient Egyptian. I am dressed up as Bastet the cat goddess.
I have got a black tail too but you can’t see it in the picture. That is my toy Bastet when she is in cat form that I got at the British Museum last year and I have got my golden Ankh I got at the Ashmolean years and years ago!
Mummy gets to come to school later to see our Egyptian dance and to look around our museum filled with artefacts we made. My one is a sistrum which was an ancient instrument that people shook like a rattle. It was used at ceremonies to honour Bastet.
wow, you are really disguised – I hardly recognised you! looks very cool! have fun!
Wow what a great Bastet outfit! I though at first that the god’s name was ‘Basket’, and I though this would be a great name for a god. But Bastet is indeed better. Trust the ancient Egyptians to get it right after all! 🙂
Oh, and does Bastet also have some new, grown-up toothy-pegs peeking out there? All the better to munch up the mouses. Or are they gods too, and can’t be eaten up?
have you seen on horrible histories that egyptian dentists put dead mice in peoples mouths if they had bad teeth?