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Praised for controlling vermin and its ability to kill snakes such as cobras, the domesticated cat became a symbol of grace and poise. The goddess Mafdet, the deification of justice and execution, was a lion-headed goddess. The cat goddess Bast eventually replaced the cult of Mafdet, and Bast's image softened from a Lion to a domestic cat over time and she became the deity representing protection, fertility, and motherhood.
When a cat died, the household would go into mourning as if for a human relative, and would often shave their eyebrows to signify their loss, and cats would often be mummified like humans, and offered as gifts to Bast.
Such was the strength of feeling towards cats, that killing one, even accidentally, incurred the death penalty.
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