Bastet provides written evidence for this. The inscription suggests that the king (Amenhotep III) was personally present at the event and had great offerings made to the deity. Bastet first appears in the third millennium BC, where she is depicted as either a fierce lioness or a woman with the head of a lioness. Then some time during the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt (c. 1070–712 BC), Bastet was changed into a cat goddess, and was depicted as a domestic cat or a cat-headed woman from that point onward. Scribes of the New Kingdom and later eras began referring to her
Eye of Ra subsequent Nile flood, which was believed to end the period of misfortune. The solar Eye's volatile nature can make her difficult even for her master to control. In the myth of the "Distant Goddess", a motif with several variants, the Eye goddess becomes upset with Ra and runs away from him. In some versions the provocation for her anger seems to be her replacement with a new eye after the search for Shu and Tefnut, but in others her rebellion seems to take place after the world is fully formed. Dimitri Meeks and Christine Favard-Meeks interpret these events as the