Bastet worship changed from being a lioness deity into being predominantly a major cat deity. Because domestic cats tend to be tender and protective of their offspring, Bastet was also regarded as a good mother, and she was sometimes depicted with numerous kittens. Consequently, a woman who wanted children sometimes wore an amulet showing the goddess with kittens, the number of which indicated her own desired number of children. The native Egyptian rulers were replaced by Greeks during an occupation of Egypt in the Ptolemaic Dynasty that lasted almost 300 years. The Greeks sometimes equated Bastet with one of their goddesses,
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two is a 1965 recording by the jazz musician Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra. Where ""Volume One"" of the "Heliocentric Worlds" series had predominantly featured short abstract pieces, "Volume Two" features longer pieces performed by a smaller group, making it closer in spirit to the contemporaneous "The Magic City", released on Ra's own Saturn label. The record has been widely bootlegged, some versions of which were retitled The Sun Myth. The album was re-released on CD by ZYX-Music (ESP 1017-2) in the 1990s. "The