Caturday: the cat, a psychopompo friend

There was a Spanish writer loved and hated for his seemingly irreverent statements about certain aspects of human promiscuity (1), who once said that God had created the cat so that men could caress a panther.

Other freethinkers, such as doctors Elizabeth Kübler-Ross and Raymond Moody, still seeing their scientific careers truncated, letting themselves be carried away by the apparent near-death experiences experienced by an increasing number of terminally ill patients, who were carried away by enthusiasm, saw in this enigmatic animal, a true companion psychopompo; that is, a guide similar to the Virgil of Dante, who accompanied the soul of the deceased to the Hereafter.

The ancient Egyptians felt a special devotion to them, to the point of turning them into demigods, untouchable servants of a goddess, Bastet, who possessed the two fundamental aspects of a true Mother Goddess: war or destruction and childbirth or birth.

For the witches, the cat was the indispensable vehicle for communicating with the higher entities that inhabited the magical world, exerting a mediating aspect, reminiscent of the Greek concept of Daimon.

And some truth must be in all this, since today, despite having gone through unfortunate historical periods, where they were massacred, they exert a special fascination throughout the world, being treated with a special and solemn reverence.

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(1) Fernando Sánchez Dragó

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