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i might dress up as a mithra for holloween.^^ i thought isis was a cat? oh well..
Bast was the Egyptain cat goddess of health and of the home. Quite popular in fact with Egyptains.
They observed that nasty diseases like the plague would leave certain towns with a high population of cats untouched. The assumed there was some kind of divine connection between that (not the cat's superior vermin slaying abilities) that would "bless" and protect those towns who showed proper repsect to their fellow felines.
As such, it was forbidden to kill a cat in Egypt. Cats were treated as family members and even mummified (at a great expense) so that they could continue to watch over their homes in the afterlife. Some families even shaved off their own eyebrows in morning when they lost their family pet.
Isis (a human goddess) on the other hand is closely accociated with the god of the death/afterlife (birth/rebirth) Osirus. They sort have a yin/yang quality about them. Isis being birth and Osirus being the afterlife (or how the Egyptians looked at it, rebirth).