Artemis and Bast equated
"The Egyptians hold solemn assemblies not once a year, but often. The
principal one of these and the most enthusiastically celebrated is that
in honor of Artemis at the town of Bubastis, and the next is that in
honor of Isis at Busiris ... and the sixth of Ares at Papremis." -
Herodotus 2.59.1
Artemis and Bast equated
"Apollon and Artemis were children
of Dionysos and Isis, and Leto was made their nurse and preserver; in
Egyptian, Apollon is Horus, Demeter Isis, Artemis
Bubastis." - Herodotus 2.156
Temple of Boubastis
"Boubastis where there is also a temple of Boubastis ... Boubastis is, in the Greek language, Artemis." - Herodotus 2.137
Artemis and Bast equated
"Apollon and Artemis were, they say, children of Dionysos and Isis, and
Leto was made their nurse and preserver; in Egyptian, Apollon is Horus,
Demeter Isis, Artemis Boubastis. It was from this legend and no other
that Aiskhylos son of Euphorion took a notion which is in no poet
before him: that Artemis was the daughter of Demeter." - Herodotus
2.156
Artemis becomes Bast in Egypt
"Typhon felt an urge to usurp
the rule of Zeus and not one of the gods could withstand him as he
attacked. In panic they fled to Aigyptos ... When they fled they had
changed themselves in anticipation into animal forms ... Artemis a
cat." - Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 28
Rare Latin dedication to Bast
“To Isis the venerated one and Bubastis, G. Popmonius Philinus th freedman of Pompnius fulfilled his vow.” - SIRIS 664
