Bastet
When human beings began to conspire against Ra, who was already growing old, he transformed the goddess Hathor (the sacred cow of happiness) into an enraged lioness, Sekhmet. Her net of blood brought plague and death into this world. This goddess, who can only be appeased by making her drunk, gradually came to be worshipped in a more peaceful form, as the cat goddess Bastet. For this reason, the domestic cat was considered sacred, and many were mummified in religious rituals.
They were also trained for hunting and were depicted artistically retrieving birds that their owners had brought down.
The Greeks identified Bastet with Artemis, goddess of the hunt (see mitolgiagrecorromana).