Iconography: Egyptian goddess in an animal way, when it is represented as cat, or anthropomorphous, with cat head and human body. Originariamente, Bastet was represented with the head of a lion that later passed to transform into cat. Such a statement is attested in the funeral Temple of Niuserra where Bastet appears as lioness (Borchardt, Sahure, Vol. II, Láms. 35-36). Similar iconography is also in the Temple of Sahure; although the head misses the image, the goddess's titles are exact to those of the relief of Niuserra.

In their representation with lioness head, she is come usually knowing as the goddess Sejmet, mentioning to this last one as the inflamed version of Bastet, when in fact, Sejmet is an Egyptian goddess different to Bastet. In fact, Sethe (Urgeschichte, págs. 19-20) it enumerates several goddesses, including a hare that you/they transformed into lioness and they were identified with Sejmet.

In their cat aspect, it feels wild, since one doesn't have perseverance of domestic (Felis sylvestris libyca) cats until the New Empire; they have been cemeteries of cats of the period of Naqada. In their anthropomorphous form, it takes on their head a headdress, a necklace around their neck and a slope of gold, in hoop form, in of their ears or in the nose, during the Drop Time. Often it is represented with with basket in the arm, in the one that, in occasions, she keeps their breedings. In their right hand she usually appears with a sistro and in the left with a necklace aegis whose head represents that of a lioness, maybe to maintain that iconography it would originate (lioness, and non cat). In the Dynastic one Early is represented with the scepter uas, typical attribute in this period of the gods. Sitting can appear in a throne, although the normal thing is that she is represented in foot. In their warring aspect, era a lioness with the green skin, associating by the light of the sun, being a solar goddess until the identification of the Greeks with their lunar goddess Artemisa.

Bastet is one of the oldest gods in the Egyptian vault; as for the relationships with other gods are attributed diverse relationships and associations:
- In the Texts of the Sarcophaguses, depending on the religious center, she is named as mother of Anubis.
- Daughter of the gods Ra or Atum.
- The goddesses' daughter Hathor or Tefnut.
- she takes, in occasions, as husbands to Atum or Mahes, forming Triad with them and with Horhekenu like son.
- In Late Time she is identified and it denominates it to him "Ba of Isis."
- Associated with Shu, she has as masculine compensation to Mahes, in Leontópolis (Late Time) who associates to Tefnut. Mahes can be substituted by Basty, also as this goddess's masculine compensation and created by the Egyptian theologians.

Description: The name of Bastet is common in the II and III Dynasties, especially during the reigns of Hotepsejemuy and Nineter. It is important to point that Bastet the same as Nejbet is a local true deity, contrary to other universal gods, as Horus that take local forms.