Bastet as "isheru", not too dissimilar from that surrounding the temple of the mother goddess Mut in Karnak at Thebes. These lakes were typical of temples devoted to a number of lioness goddesses who are said to represent one original goddess, daughter of the Sun-God Ra / Eye of Ra: Bastet, Mut, Tefnut, Hathor, and Sakhmet. Each of them had to be appeased by a specific set of rituals. One myth relates that a lioness, fiery and wrathful, was once cooled down by the water of the lake, transformed into a gentle cat, and settled in the temple. In the temple,
Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is a novel written by Moyra Caldecott in 1989. It was first published in 1990 as "Daughter of Ra" in paperback by Arrow Books Limited (). Based on the lives of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun. Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is part of Moyra Caldecott’s Egyptian sequence, which also includes "" and "". Chronologically, Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra takes place after the other two books. Ankhesenamun has never been safe in all her short life – not even with her beloved husband and half brother Tutankhamun.