The ancient Egyptians revered the cat. Wild cats of the control rats, snakes and other parasitic diseases, and thus curb human diseases. The first feral cats finally tame as they have become accustomed to humans. Egyptians believed that their God is the living intelligences, this body was held in No Cats were venerated as early as 3100 BC, where we found a crystal bowl decorated with a lion goddess Bast, he adds.
The goddess Bast wasFirst seen as a lion, but then softened its functions more like them, a cat. As cat Bast was sacred, embalming was practiced and death compared to mirror image of what they had in life. Greek historian Herodotus wrote that when a cat died, the family will grieve as a family man. Sometimes it would shave his eyebrows in mourning. The cat has been found mummified and decorated in a very exposedEgyptian tombs. Statues of cats in precious metals were found buried with God and all goddesses in Egypt. Portraits of revered cat was found hieroglyphics on tomb walls and carved into cups, bowls and many other antiques.
Herodotus also noted that cats were mummified and buried in the cemetery at large. There are also many graves were cremated still likes cats and kittens. The ancient Egyptians held cats the utmost consideration, as many ofWe modern people think! The cat is still valid in many!
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