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The women engaged in music, song, and dance on their way to the place. Great sacrifices were made and prodigious amounts of wine were drunk--more than was the case throughout the year. This accords well with Egyptian sources which prescribe that lioness goddesses are to be appeased with the "feasts of drunkenness". A festival of Bastet was known to be celebrated during the New Kingdom at Bubastis. The block statue from the eighteenth dynasty of Nefer-ka, the wab-priest of Sekhmet, provides written evidence for this. The inscription suggests

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