In Egypt grain was life. Rodents eat grain and spread diseases which is opposite of life. Cats come around and kill rodents. You can’t blame them for worshipping cats. Rodents spreading disease kill far more people than any fearsome African predator ever could.
Fancy-Way5959 on
Bro saw one house cat and invented an entire religion on the spot.
EgoSenatus on
I think I read somewhere that cats were so revered due to the following process:
-Disease kills people
-vermin carry disease
-cats eat vermin
-when there is a cat around, there is less vermin, ergo, less disease, ergo less people dying which eventually just mythologically evolved into:
“cats = human safety. Cats = deities”
stabs_rittmeister on
So the history has gone a full circle and we’re worshiping cats again.
TheHistoryMaster2520 on
Persians: imma do what’s called a pro-gamer move
haleloop963 on
To those wondering why, cats were belived to be sacred animals to the Egyption god Bestet, Bestet could also posses cats as it was also believed as cats also serves as vesels that Bestet could posses. Also because cats ate vermin that harmed crops & kept rodents away
Herald_of_Clio on
Fun fact: the Egyptian word for cat is ‘mau’. They let these god creatures name themselves.
Blueberrybush22 on
There’s an orange cat who comes by my house once a month or so.
I give him a bowl of kibble, because I low key feel like he’s a monk begging for alms.
Fantastic_View2027 on
Can we worship them instead of the abrahamic religion? Bring back the Pharaoh!
punkate on
You can make a religion out of this!
Maverick_00x on
In Assassin’s Creed Origins, if you kill a cat, you’ll get desynchronization. It is that sacred to them…
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Ancient Indians seeing cows around 900BCE
In Egypt grain was life. Rodents eat grain and spread diseases which is opposite of life. Cats come around and kill rodents. You can’t blame them for worshipping cats. Rodents spreading disease kill far more people than any fearsome African predator ever could.
Bro saw one house cat and invented an entire religion on the spot.
I think I read somewhere that cats were so revered due to the following process:
-Disease kills people
-vermin carry disease
-cats eat vermin
-when there is a cat around, there is less vermin, ergo, less disease, ergo less people dying which eventually just mythologically evolved into:
“cats = human safety. Cats = deities”
So the history has gone a full circle and we’re worshiping cats again.
Persians: imma do what’s called a pro-gamer move
To those wondering why, cats were belived to be sacred animals to the Egyption god Bestet, Bestet could also posses cats as it was also believed as cats also serves as vesels that Bestet could posses. Also because cats ate vermin that harmed crops & kept rodents away
Fun fact: the Egyptian word for cat is ‘mau’. They let these god creatures name themselves.
There’s an orange cat who comes by my house once a month or so.
I give him a bowl of kibble, because I low key feel like he’s a monk begging for alms.
Can we worship them instead of the abrahamic religion? Bring back the Pharaoh!
You can make a religion out of this!
In Assassin’s Creed Origins, if you kill a cat, you’ll get desynchronization. It is that sacred to them…