Luxurious temples were dedicated to cats in Egypt. The cat was praised by thousands of pilgrims. The cat was mummified. In the city of Beni-Hasan, archaeologists have found a cat cemetery. There were buried 180 thousand cats. Mummies of cats were in gold and silver tombs inlaid with precious stones.
In ancient Egypt, when a cat died, its owner shaved off his eyebrows as a sign of deep mourning. From a burning house, during a fire, the first thing that the Egyptians took out was a cat. For unintentionally killing a cat, you could easily pay with your own life! As a nocturnal animal, in Egypt, the cat was dedicated to the goddess of the moon, fertility and procreation named Basta.
Basta was the sister of the god - the sun god Ra, a woman with a cat's head. The sacred cat of Egypt, which nursed the Mountain, tears off the head of the Apepi snake, a symbol of evil and darkness, that is, sterility - a scene that is reflected in chapter 17 of the so-called "Book of the Dead"
The Egyptian priests built many analogies between the cat and the sun. First of all, these are the eyes of the Cat. The sun rises, the pupils of the cat's eyes become smaller. The sun goes down in the evening, the cat's eyes widen. When the Sun has disappeared, the cat looks at the world with wide pupils, round and luminous. The cat's eyes are two reduced suns. The eyes of a cat are magic windows to other worlds in which you can see a lot.