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thatlittleegyptologist:catbountry:mrsdevilla:the-hatred-machine:kareshy:gigaguess:the-treble:internationalgirl:This is why you should have a cat y’all. Egyptians believed that cats repelled evil spirits.Cats are evil spirits. They’re just the strongest so all others must bow to their greatness.If you ever wonder why a cat stares off into the wild blue yonder and then bolts off for “no reason…”That cat even looks like it’s accusing him of something like wait a Fucking minute here are you dead did you really think you could slip that shit passed meI don’t know where you get your sources but cats were not fucking “guardians of the underworld”; this movie is based on EGYPT, cats were common domestic pets by the time Egypt unified, and they were representations of the goddess Bastet, ex goddess of warfare (formerly asociated with a lioness ), post-unification protector goddess. Cats were guardians of houses because they embodied the representation of Bastet, the “EYE of Ra”, the one that tells ra whatever happens. If a cat saw an evil spirit, it would tell Ra, and Ra would smite down the fucker in an instant. Bastet was also feared by evil spirits because she was the only one to be able to harm the evil snake Apep and save Ra’s ass, so you bet someone that escaped Anubis’ judgement and Osiris’ preservation would do well to fear Bastet out of fear of being caught by said gods.They were seen as this as well because they disposed of rats and snakes (perhaps an egyptian once saw a cat killing a snake and went “OH BAST JUST KILLED APEP” and that’s how the mythos started), so they were useful animals to keep as pets, revered, adored, mourned when they died, and if you killed one you received death penalty.The only animal seen as a “guardian of the underworld” were jackals, because they embodied Anubis and were seen near tombs, but that’s because they entered said tombs to try and eat the corpses and the egyptians based their entire Anubis lore on them.So yeah, if you were an evil emperor that escaped the process of the gods you once worshipped, unleashed curses around the world disrespecting your own pantheon, and you came across an avatar of the goddess of Warfare that could also call upon Ra to pulverize you with sunlight, and have your soul sundered by Osiris and weighted by Anubis to go to your rightful place as someone who perished AGES ago, you would shit on your pants as well.Actually according to legend, cats are guardians of the Underworld. So once you are dead if you try to sneak back into the land of the living they send you back where you came from. They protect the living from the dead.That cat’s a snitch.Cats were ‘guardians of the underworld’ among many other creatures like reptiles, canines, donkeys, baboons,hippopotami, goats, bulls, insects, scorpions, and birds such as falcons and vultures. I’ve never heard of them sending people back. You fall into ‘nun’ (chaos and nothingness) or you get to the afterlife. Those are your only options.Many had knives or carried ankhs, and were there to help ward off demons or evil spirits as the deceased went through the many trials in order to reach the afterlife. Anubis guided them, but he was real rubbish at actually helping. This is why you give animals KNIVES:(There’s a lovely feline at the front with a knife from this BotD)MORE KNIVES (From the BotD of Khonsumose)(These guys have feathers belonging to Ma’at (goddess of truth) but that kid at the back is weaponised for the fucking apocalypse and we’re ignoring the flying snake at the front)I wish I could find more images, but guardians of the underworld are usually on obscure pieces of the BotD that the general public don’t care to see. So before you yell at people on the internet, learn to fact check for yourself, because I’m a historian, I can research, and I will fact check your ass from here to the beginning of human history. -- source link