– MANHATTAN BEACH CIVIC CENTER –

Basta the Bastet, a a modern cat god is based on an Egyptian bastet, the god of war that turned into a god of the house.  What better god to greet you when going to get your building permit?  In Egyptian times, the bastet had a necklace of jewels.  The modern god has a necklace of cell phones and computer parts, and these link to her ear buds.  An ancient cat, with ancient cell phones, she was proposed to guard the civic plaza.