The Temple of Bast

Yasaa Moin
1 min readMay 22, 2020

Servants donning barely one piece of cloth around their waist, while others donning a bit of jewelry carried caskets of fish, laid them by the feet of the statue of Bast. The priestesses wore a single piece of cloth, cut and wrapped ingeniously. Golden ribbons hung from their waists and laced the cloth.
The smell of the milk brought out the cats that inhabited and were worshipped within the temple. Pretty white ones, striped brown ones, the curious beige ones, and the light brown ones with the sparse fur, made their way towards the dug up pool where the milk was being poured in.

The cats wore jewelry of their own, similar gold necklaces that the goddess was known to be fond of.
The shy ones had to be found and brought to the pool by the priestesses who weren't needed at the ritual.

A servant fumbled with balls of yarn, and a black cat leapt at one. Some striped ones brought their own kill and tore at them away from the eyes of the rest, behind the goddess' statue.

Illustration by Angus McBride (British, 1931-2007).
Story: By me.

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Yasaa Moin

I'm a Developmental Editing enthusiast, and fantasy is the genre I intend to work in. And so, I'm learning and training.