What kind of cat did the egyptians worship?

Answer 1

There were two types of cats that were buried with pharaohs. The Egyptians worshiped the jungle cat and the African wild cat. Both of these species were tame, household pets of the Egyptians. When a pharaoh died his pet cats were embalmed and buried with him.

Answer 2

Phaoronic religion had its zoomorphic component. Certain animals had ritual importance such as the Cat-Goddess Bast ( rhymes with past) Therefore Dead cats were mummified in a seated, statue-like posture and may have been placed in some tombs as cats themselves were considered sacred. an outer- cat-shaped sort of hollowed out frame or effigy- often of precious metal- housed the dead cat. Statues of cats were also used. None of this specifically states that pets were buried with Egyptian royalty or nobility, but possibly at temples nearby. Cats had the practical role of keeping the rodent population down at granaries, etc and still do. Hawks ( Horus, the hawk-god was somehow connected to the passage of time- like Chronos, Saturn or the concept of Father Time.- as stated the Egyptian religion was more zoomorphic than the Greco-Roman mythology, where War-God Mars and Hunter Orion did have dogs, but as battle and field aids- no Dog-Gods in Greco-Roman mythology! Orion"s pooch was named Sirius. there are three stars in a slant on his Garrison belt- The two constellations run in tandem- the Hunter and his Dog- makes sense.