Egyptian Mythology!! Cats!

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I love Egyptian Mythology because it is so interesting and mysterious; we can see the great cult of death, pyramids, pharaohs, iconography, half-animal gods half person, the intellectual advances in areas such as mathematics or the subject of embalming. All these things and more is so marvelous if we think in the year that they were living.

In old Egypt, the animals were represented   in paintings, prints and sculptures, symbolizing the power of the animal. One of the signs that show the big interest in animals is the fact that gods are half person and half animal in most of time.

The animals were surrendered more cult were the cat, the crocodile and the beetle. I'll talk about the cat, because I love this animal and I think that the cat has a mysterious story that makes it so interesting!!

I’ll talk about a female god, her name is Bast. She is a goddess of the Egyptian mythology that is identified with the figure of the cats. Many times, she is represented with woman’s body and cat head or simply as a cat.

She embodies the feminine and she is the goddess of the happiness music, besides being the employer of the home. She is associates with the moon and she protected the births and pregnant of illnesses and bad spirits. Also, she symbolizes the fertility and feminine virtues.

Her representation of a cat is incredible because, for cat nature is a big animal of fertility and a protective mother of her puppies. 

If someone accidentally killed a cat, they were punished with the death. The cats that died were embalmed and sent to a cementery.