Bastet some cats were found to have been mummified and buried, many next to their owners. More than 300,000 mummified cats were discovered when Bastet's temple was excavated. The main source of information about the Bastet cult comes from Herodotus who visited Bubastis around 450 BCE after the changes in the religious sect. He equated Bastet with the Greek Goddess Artemis. He wrote extensively about the religious sect. Turner and Bateson suggest that the status of the cat was roughly equivalent to that of the cow in modern India. The death of a cat might leave a family in great mourning
The Goddess of Spring The Goddess of Spring The Goddess of Spring is a 9-minute "Silly Symphonies" animated Disney short film. The Symphony is imbued with operatic themes and is often cited as melodramatic. It was released in 1934, and its production was important to the future development of Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" animation. Each Silly Symphony was a technological marvel at the time and proceeded to further advancements in the animation industry. While the plot of "The Goddess of Spring" follows the Greek myth of Persephone (known as “Proserpina” in Roman Mythology) and Hades (Pluto), the imagery is more evocative