Mummified cats were often buried near her shrines. Bast is most commonly depicted as a woman with the head of either a cat or a lion. She is never shown fully human. She wears the royal headdress of a sun disk and cobra. To kill a cat meant death.
Bast represents grace and discipline.
She is the daughter of Ra and was said to be Ra's right eye, acting as the instrument of the sun God's vengeance. She was the personification of the gentle heat of the sun. She also was the protectress of cats. There is a three day festival in Bubastis in her honor. Bast's devotees celebrated their lady with processions of flower-laden barges.