Bastet Statue Venus_of_Willendorf Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator

Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who

he was thought to be the creator of the bodies of human children which he made at a potter’s wheel from clay and placed in their mothers’ wombs

It isn't merely a piece of religious iconography

she was said to be "more clever than a million gods"

Bastet Statue Venus_of_Willendorf Spartacus was a Thracian gladiatorBastet, also called Bast, ancient Egyptian goddess worshipped in the form of a lioness and later a cat. The daughter of Ra, the sun god, Bastet was an ancient deity whose ferocious nature was ameliorated after the domestication of the cat around 1500 BCE. She was native to Bubastis in the Nile River delta but also had an important cult at Memphis. In the Late and Ptolemaic periods large cemeteries of mummified cats were created at both sites, and