Linda wrote:Yeah, cats have an evil range. Hey, they are preditors, like humans....
But they also have a great history!

The goddess
Bastet, represented at first like a lion and then with the human body surmounted by the head of a cat. Bastet was the goddess of song, of dance, of fertility of the men and of the animals and of love. In her left hand it was an amulet eye -cat of shaped, the utchat, that had magical powers, and was reproduced in the decorations of the houses, to protect against thefts, illnesses and carving. Like jewel to put on, it watched the travellers and was omen for numerous offspring for the new spouses. Many think that the names used along time to define the cats are coming from utchat: for example, the French chat. Every year, in occasion of the festivity of the goddess, the pilgrims were giving to her as gifts precious objects and the embalmed bodies of their cats.
