During my return visit to the Cat Museum recently, which is for the fourth time, I really came to realise that there are so many write-up articles about this most lovable pet - Cat!!
As there are many cat lovers everywhere, thus I would like to share the articles with all friends and readers, especially those who are in Kuching but have never visited the Cat Museum and specially to those who are not living in Kuching City.
As there are many cat lovers everywhere, thus I would like to share the articles with all friends and readers, especially those who are in Kuching but have never visited the Cat Museum and specially to those who are not living in Kuching City.
The first article which I have to share is entitled : "Cat In Ancient Egypt"
Ancient Egypt was believed to be the first country to domesticate the cat. As a great grain producing country, cats were credited to have kept down rats and other pests which attacked grain stored in granaries and eventually became the most respected of all animals. It was reported that when a house caught fire, the first thing to be saved was the house cat.
The death of a family cat was considered a painful experience, and the whole family went into mourning immediately by shaving off their eyebrows, and mourning would last until the eyebrows grew back. The Egyptians even kept cats in temples and considered them sacred and offered sacrifices to them. On the death of a temple cat, the whole city mourned and was given the most elaborate service and was ultimately laid to rest in a real tomb and was even preserved as mummy. In the middle of the 19th Century, over 300,000 cats mummies weighing over 20 tons were discovered at Beni Hassan, Egypt.
In ancient Egypt, it was very unlucky to come across a dead cat in the street and a passer-by would start to cry aloud with grief beating his chest and lamenting the loss. Anyone found guilty of killing a cat was put to death.
As early as 3,000 B.C. the ancient Egyptians even had a cat goddess named Bastet and which symbolised motherhood, fertility and protector of crops and rain making.
The death of a family cat was considered a painful experience, and the whole family went into mourning immediately by shaving off their eyebrows, and mourning would last until the eyebrows grew back. The Egyptians even kept cats in temples and considered them sacred and offered sacrifices to them. On the death of a temple cat, the whole city mourned and was given the most elaborate service and was ultimately laid to rest in a real tomb and was even preserved as mummy. In the middle of the 19th Century, over 300,000 cats mummies weighing over 20 tons were discovered at Beni Hassan, Egypt.
In ancient Egypt, it was very unlucky to come across a dead cat in the street and a passer-by would start to cry aloud with grief beating his chest and lamenting the loss. Anyone found guilty of killing a cat was put to death.
As early as 3,000 B.C. the ancient Egyptians even had a cat goddess named Bastet and which symbolised motherhood, fertility and protector of crops and rain making.
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