Cats in ancient Egypt where called "Mau" and played a large role in society. They where associated with the goddess Bastet and considered very sacred. Killing a cat was absolutely forbidden and whenever a household cat died the entire family would mourn and shave their eyebrows off. Families took their dead cats to a sacred city called "Bubastis"where they would be embalmed and ritually buried.
The Greeks later syncretized their own goddess Artemist with the Egyptian Goddess Bastet, adopting Bastet's association with Cats. Then the Romans synchrotized their Goddess Diana, with Artemis and Bastet. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, when the gods flee to Egypt and take animal forms, the Goddess Diana turns into a cat.
During the middle ages, many of Artemis's associations with cats were grafted onto the Virgin Mary and according to Italian folklore on the same night that Mary gave birth to Jesus, a cat in Bethlehem gave birth to a kitten.
It is said cats have nine lives and cats are associated with the number 9 in Qabalah.
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