
Heavenly Power of the Sistrum, Great Queen of All Powers, the Cat Goddess, She of Bubastis
Learn more…After you are done with this, you can meditate on Bastet's Sigil in the Temple of Zeus, or the one below. Let yourself be immersed and receive energy from Bastet.
It's important to meditate on yourself after the Ritual calmly for a few minutes.
सत्: SAT, real, true, truthful in Sanskrit.
The Symbol that Encapsulates the Sigil: The Shen Ring, Egyptian Hieroglyphic language. The Shen also survived in Chinese tradition as a glyph for Spiritual Force, Divine Force, and God.
The Ancient Greek letters for Bastet's Name in arrangement.
Bastet (Egyptian: Bꜣstt) is the cat-headed Goddess of home, fertility, joy, music, dance, and protection. Her cult center at Bubastis (Tell Basta) in the eastern Nile Delta was one of the most celebrated in Egypt. Herodotus (Histories II.59-60) describes the annual Festival of Bastet at Bubastis as the largest and most joyous religious gathering in Egypt, attended by 700,000 pilgrims. Originally depicted as a fierce lioness (an aspect later differentiated as Sekhmet), Bastet evolved into the more gentle cat-form from the New Kingdom onward. The Sesheshet (sistrum) is her sacred instrument: its rattling sound was believed to drive away evil spirits and invoke divine joy. Her name may derive from bꜣs ("fire, heat") + the feminine suffix -t, connecting her to the protective fire of the Eye of Ra.
(Sources: Herodotus, Histories II.59-60, II.137-138; Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, 2003; Malek, The Cat in Ancient Egypt, 1993)
The Goetia lists Haagenti as the forty-eighth spirit: a President commanding 33 legions, appearing as a bull with griffin wings. His attributed powers (transmuting metals into gold, turning water into wine, conferring wisdom) correspond to Bastet's transformative role: the Goddess who transmutes the base energies of the soul (fear, grief, anger) into their refined forms (courage, joy, love). The bull-form in the Goetia may preserve the memory of the Apis bull, sacred to Ptah at nearby Memphis, with whom the Bubastis cult had close connections. The name Haagenti may derive from a corruption of Ha-Bastet ("the house/spirit of Bastet").
(Sources: Weyer, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, 1577; Ars Goetia, 17th c.)