BASTET- THE GODDESS OF JOY, MUSIC AND DANCING. The cat headed goddess was the goddess of pleasure. Cats were as sacred as Bastet, a symbol of animal passion. Her temple kept sacred cats, which were supposed to be reincarnations of the goddess. After they die, they were mummified. She appears as a woman with the head of a cat, sometimes holding a sistrum or a rattle. The town of Bubastis was the cult centre of this solar goddess sometimes represented simply as a cat. Measuring 24cm high x 12cm wide for each bookend.