Magic and cats

Average and New Kingdom, Egyptians worship to goddess Bast serving by a symbol of love and fruitfulness. The city of Bubastis becomes the main place of its honoring. And in Sakkare in its honor was will erect a temple – Bubastejon.

Also the cat was связанна with goddess Pasht (Moon). Пашт there was dark aspect of Bast, the Madam of the East, mother of all cats, the wife of god a Bird. Though it was considered as an embodiment of vivifying energy and gentle heat of the Sun, through the sacred cats it has been connected and with the Moon.The cat was the most sacred animal of Egyptians. In a temple of Bast there lived especially sacred cats who after their death solemnly embalmed. For murder of a cat sentenced to the death penalty. Cats of black color were sacred cats of Bast; the image of a black cat was placed on the houses by the Egyptian doctors, as a symbol of the trade.

And according to historian Ptolemeju, cats have affected in the solving image an outcome of a siege of the boundary city of Peluzija armies of Persian tsar Kambiza II. Attacking have resorted to cunning – the first rank of coming soldiers had control over cats then Egyptians have immediately surrendered as couldn't admit that their sacred animals have suffered.

The cult of cats existing in Egypt has concerned also other countries. So traces of its influence can be found out in Gallia, in Toulouse where amulets have been found, figurines – with the image of cats.The cult of cats existing in Egypt has concerned also other countries. So traces of its influence can be found out in Gallia, in Toulouse where amulets have been found, figurines – with the image of cats.

About worship a cat of Egyptians the Greek authors repeatedly wrote. Геродот mentions the mourning appearing in the house where the animal has died. Диодор Sicilian too has left stories about exclusive love of Egyptians to cats. It is known that Greeks quite often confused to Bast own goddess Artemis personifying the Moon, the goddess of hunting.

Not the cat and in Japan uses smaller respect. Palace doors in Kyoto hospitably open before the white cat who has given birth to five kittens. But, perhaps, as the graphic evidence of love to cats the temple devoted to a cat of Maneki-Neko, that is «a greeting cat» serves in the rising sun Country, with the paw lifted as a sign of a greeting.

All these historical legends given not simply and fictions, it is the fact of mystification of a cat. Its unsolved magic of an attraction. Only the cat learns, what person has come to you to the house, only the cat will let to you know that it the bad person.

 
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