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Egyptians had a farming culture & stored grain and other crops. This stored food would have attracted rodents and other pests, which cats would have followed. Given that cats & humans do not compete for the same food source, humans allowed cats to stay. Not only that, but cats also realized that they had plenty of food in human settlements.
- Cats in Ancient Egypt
- Cats in India
- The Persian Cat
- Cats in China and Japan
- Cats in Greece and Rome
- Cats as Demonic Figures
- The Victorian Age and Cat Vindication
- Popularity of Cats
The cat's association with ancient Egypt, however, is understandable in that Egyptian culture was famous for its devotion to the cat. The export of cats from Egypt was so strictly prohibited that a branch of the government was formed solely to deal with this issue. Government agents were dispatched to other lands to find and return cats which had b...
Cats are mentioned in the two great literary epics of ancient India, The Mahabharata and The Ramayana (both c. 5th/4th century BCE). In Mahabharata a famous passage concerns the cat Lomasa and the mouse Palita, who help each other escape from death and discuss at length the nature of relationships, particularly those in which one of the parties is ...
A Persian tale claims the cat was created magically. The great Persian hero Rustum, out on campaign, one night saved a magician from a band of thieves. Rustum offered the older man the hospitality of his tent and, as they sat outside under the stars, enjoying the warmth of a fire, the magician asked Rustum what he wished for as a gift in repayment ...
This was also true in China where the goddess Li Shou was depicted in cat form and petitions and sacrifices made to her for pest control and fertility. She too, was a very popular goddess who was thought to embody the importance of cats in the early days of creation. An ancient Chinese myth relates that, in the beginning of the world, the gods appo...
Although cats were kept by people in Greece and Rome, the appreciation for the animal as a hunter was not as great in those cultures owing to the Greek and Roman practice of keeping domesticated weasels for pest control. The Romans regarded the cat as a symbol of independence and not as a creature of utility. Cats were kept as pets by both Greeks a...
Although cats seem to have enjoyed their ancient high standing in European countries at first (in Norse mythology, for example, the great goddess Freya is depicted in a chariot drawn by cats and in both Ireland and Scotland cats are depicted as magical in a positive sense) the Christian Church, following their regular course of demonizing important...
Cats survived these frenzied superstitions better than many of their human companions and during the Enlightenment of the 18th century were elevated to the status of pampered pets. This was due to the spirit of the age and the new paradigm of reason prevailing over superstition. The power of the church in dictating popular opinion had been broken b...
Many writers of the age owned and admired cats. Charles Dickens was so devoted to his cats that he allowed them into his study and regularly allowed his favorite (known as The Master's Cat) to snuff out the candle on Dickens' writing desk even when the author was at work. Evidently, the cat would grow tired of Dickens' attention being directed towa...
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Aug 11, 2021 · Nekomata are essentially powered up Bakeneko. Legends of Nekomata begin in a similar way to the Bakeneko – with a domestic cat standing on its hind legs. However, Nekomata are the oldest and largest cats and have longer tails than Bakeneko. They are said to have two identical tails after their change, enabling them to create double the trouble.
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Feb 29, 2024 · The history of the very first chicken in the Japanese diet was recorded from around 300 AD. Various old records show that hunting chicken was a quite popular thing to do in some ceremonies at that time. Also, in the Nara Period (710-794 AD), people used to eat dried chicken as a rudimentary preserved food.
Feb 8, 2024 · 1. Maneki Neko. The beckoning cat, better known as the Maneki Neko in Japanese, is one of the most popular feline statues with a symbolic meaning. The Maneki Neko is believed to bring fortune and ...
Jul 15, 2020 · Sometime around 5,300 BCE, it seems that these wild cats noticed that rodents like mice, voles, and hazel grouse flocked to human settlements to eat crops and food stores. The rodents came for the ...
Another ancient Japanese tradition is to eat mochi (rice cakes) during new year, which is said to date back to the Heian period (794-1185 CE). A Japanese food staple is soba - but before...
