COMMANDER ZORRO'S MAGIC TIME PORTAL TO THE ANICENT EGYPTIAN GODDESS OF CATS!

WOW! That means you must be at least five miliennia in years...If I've got my
Earth history right you've observed just about everything that has happened
on Planet Earth! That's more than 9 lives! By the way what do they mean a cat
has nine lives?

Seen it all Zorro, but you must remember this, several of the ancient religions
believed that we cats are exalted souls, companions or guides for humans, that
we are all-knowing but are mute so we cannot influence decisions made by
humans. So though I have witnessed much, I could not intefer with the
decisions of the humans and the growth of this planet.

This was a problem...1. Pharoah needed cats to catch the rats and mice, 2. The
cats belonged to his people and they loved their animals 3. There would have
been a majr revolt if he just went and took their animals...which he could do
by divine right, but that was not a good option. So he did the next best thing,
he left all the cats where they were but made them demigods: all the cats in
Egypt, all at once. Gosh.....pretty smart dude...then he took the cats?

Easy, a human could provide a home and food for a demigod, and this they did,
bringing them to their assigned granary each night and picking them up each
morning. As compensation for this service, they would receive a tax credit - in
essence, claiming their cats as dependents.

True, the value for life and respect for others seems to be lacking somewhat
on Planet Earth right now. I see many trying to change things and that's a very
positive step to help save planet earth. Here's an example of what I mean
about swift justice. I remember...if memory serves me right back around 60
BCE, the chariot of a Roman soldier accidentally ran over an Egyptian cat. An
outraged mob gathered and, despite pleas from pharaoh Ptolemy XII, they
killed the soldier. Poor lad but the law was the law......

If a house caught fire, the cats were saved first, then, if there was time, the
people. Really? Remember the cats were demigods and people were only
human. Whenever a cat died in the normal course of events, the whole of its
human household went into elaborate ritualistic mourning, often shaving off
their eyebrows, chanting, pounding their breasts, and demonstrating other
outward signs of grief at their loss. Then the body of the cat had to be
carefully wrapped in linen and brought to the priests, who would check it
carefully to be certain its death was natural. When the priests were done, the
body was taken to the embalmers, who made a cat mummy. Also provisions for
the afterlife such as pots of milk and even mummified mice were included
.There were far more cat mummies than people mummies in Egypt!

You bet!....My name means devourer! By day I would ride through the sky with
my father, the sun god Ra, his boat pulling the sun through the sky. I was the
protector goddess of Lower Egypt, and depicted as a fierce lion.
As protectress, I was also defender of the pharaoh.

I protected Ra from his enemies. And so I became known as the
Lady of the East, the Goddess of the Rising Sun, The Sacred and All-Seeing
Eye, Lady of Flame and Eye of Ra.

But at night, I was a different creature entirely! I transformed myself into a
cat (renown for my superb night vision) to guard my father from Apep, a
serpent who was my father's greatest enemy.

Ra's priests burned wax models of the Apep and wrote his name with green
ink, trying to put a "hex" on him -- but to no avail.Finally, it was I with my cat
eyes shining in the dark, I killed the evil serpent. Thus ensuring that the
warmth of the sun would continue to bless the delta of the Nile with fertile
soil and abundant crops.

Because of my all-seeing sacred eye (called the utchat) that magically saw
through the dark, I am one of the few sun goddesses that is also classified
as a moon goddess...with my glowing cat's eye reminding all of the moon that it
reflects.

What a beautiful rose! "A bit of fragrance always clings
to the hand that gives roses." Thank you! The pleasure
was mine. I will always be with you my little Zorro and
with all the beings on Planet Earth. Take care of your world, it's the only one
you've got!

What a great goddess! Well....... what have you learned from Bast? Want to
know what I've learned? You do? OK! She reminds me of all that is feline and
feminine. Her gifts, very cat-like in nature of course, include the refusal to be
at everyone's beck and call and an insistence on the freedom of expression.

She teaches everyone to relax and never waste energy, reminding us to
luxuriate in beauty, perfume, and to sway in graceful movement. Bast refuses
to take anything too seriously.

But most importantly, Bast leads everyone to accept the true nature of things
and helps us remain unswayed by the opinion of others.