Dua Bast

Dua Bast sort of means 'salutation to Bast'. Bast was the Cat Goddess of ancient Egypt whose sacred city was known as Bubastis. Her name had the connotation of 'a vase', 'a container', and so it evoked sacred feminine imagery. She ruled instincts, love, music, belly dancing and the arts. She was also considered the lunar Eye of God (Ra) while her sister Sekhmet was the solar Eye of God. The Eyes of Ra embodied Ma'at, righteousness, justice. She watched and protected the righteous by night while her sister did by day.

I've always wondered what it would have been like to have lived in ancient Egypt. I've always asked myself: What would it be like to have grown up Pagan, worshipping many deities with complete innocence and freedom? What would it have felt like to gaze into the holy lotus eyes of Bast and to know that Her Ba, Her Spirit, resided in Her deity, that She could hear us, that we could bow to Her and that She would sniff our enemy, the terrorist, the oppressor, the abuser, and ravage him wherever he was hiding?

Abrahamic religions often confuse belief in monotheism with righteousness, while empirical evidence shows me that the atheistic and polytheistic religions of Buddhism and Hinduism are the most ethical, least violent religions on Earth. Vaishnavas don't even eat meat out of compassion for animals.

The dismantlement of Pagan ideological and spiritual infrastructures was a huge, unforgivable act of aggression on the part of the Abrahamic religions, one with psychological repercussions for all of humanity that we're barely beginning to recognize, thanks in part to the work of two great men: psychoanalyst Carl Jung and mythographer Joseph Campbell. We were robbed of so much freedom and creativity.

If Paganism really is so full of depravity and evil, why did democracy, philosophy and empirical thinking originate and/or reach their peak in antiquity in ancient Pagan Greece?

Is the Catholic rejection of condoms as a measure against HIV and for family planning, really less a superstition than avoidance of the number 13, or knocking on wood? It is a taboo that has absolutely no factual base! It's unnecessary and it promotes ignorance, unwanted children ... AND HIV, and all the unnecessary suffering that arise from them. Abrahamic religions, while they accuse Pagans of superstition, are full of superstitions themselves, and dangerous ones.

I took this opportunity to begin the video with verses from the various scriptures that speak against animal cruelty, since the cult of Bast was focused on feline imagery and Spirit was believed to reside in living entities of all species, that is, Spirit is eternal and beyond the category of species, which is a bodily category.

With environmental catastrophe looming on the horizon, with hundreds if not thousands of species in danger of becoming extinct, and with animal cruelty going unchallenged today almost everywhere in the planet, I question the relevance of conventional religions in the face of revivals of ancient Pagan religions which honor Spirit within all living entities, and which place great emphasis on environmental issues, and little on beliefs and ideas, which have no life ... while the Gospel says that 'letter is dead but Breath quickens ... God is the God of the living", it is Pagans and Aboriginals who have always had a visceral understanding of how Spirit dwells in all living, breathing entities, and honor it everywhere.

May the Creatrix or Creator, in her many names and disguises, take an interest in our Earth and its beings. May She lovingly protect all of its billions of animals from human oppression. May She awaken us to our interrelatedness. There is a Sanskrit prayer that says "Loka Samasthas Sukhino Bhavantu", which translates into "May all the beings of all the worlds be eternally blissful."

Shanti Shanti Shantihi ... Peace Peace give us Peace

Saadaya

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[saadaya]

In the Bible, the book of Jonah 4:11 indicates that the prophet Jonah believed that COWS were part of the reason why the city of Niniveh was saved!  Cows are naturally vegetarian and non violent, they don't even kill to eat, form lifelong bonds with their calves and are generous and even lovingly feed those who are not their offspring like mothers, even humans who mistreat them. Krishna, of course, also descended and took an incarnation, in part, to protect the cows. God loves cows.

[brychar66]

Nice compilation; great music and images. And the message is a welcome one.

[saadaya]

Thank you brychar ... and good 2 c u here as well! Hare Krishna!

[Shroctopus]

Cats are sacred.... treat them with respect and dignity.... they are a vital part of our soul.

[aGlowJustGuess]

KILLED DOGS.....C'MON, EVEN CATS AREN'T THAT CRUEL. CAN'T U SEE that U WILL FEEL THE PAIN THEY DID, ONE DAY. How can ANYONE feel the power to hurt an animal? We have no right to protect selective kinds of animals and not others. That is like saying I hate 1 breed of ppl, for no reason. Even animals kill to survive. What kind of thrill could u get inflicting pain on dogs anyway. hope u don't have kids

[TheJUNGLESURFER]

check my whitney houston videos

[fuzzmew]

@Shroctopus Truth! The Great Mew has told me this.

[muskndusk]

@kittysuper222 Troll Alert!!!

[gardini100]

@muskndusk cant be a veggie to save life no matter what you eat you take life or a comming life ....its not up to us to judge lifeforms but its up to us to take only what we need and thankfull for it :)

[gardini100]

@saadaya and now we loosing the cows ....they dont wanne be here anymore .....but who can blame them ?

[owlsandankhs]

I love Bast. Beautiful video and words below. =)

[mistermateriel]

@saadaya

They taste good. I think they were meant for us to eat, but I disagree with process beef.

[latheax4224]

i beleive that bast if their is a afterlife will guide me to the forest to spend my days alone learning what i have not learnt

[muskndusk]

@aGlowJustGuess Sorry to disagree, esp as I'm a veggie, but animals do kill other animals......for food. Cats I love to pieces, but they are natural carnivores. Bastet created them so.