My heritage

I sit like an Egyptian. When I do, I sit up very straight and I line up my paws in a row. I can sit up quite straight. I have extremely good posture.

Hey, take the picture already.













That's better. According to this, the ancient Egyptian depiction of cats was with the "tail... always placed neatly against the right side of the animal."
As you can see, my tail is indeed placed neatly against my right side. Further, "This reflects the Egyptian tradition of depicting all animals in hieroglyphics as facing right." And I am facing right.













This means humans should...

worship me!

The good old days.
As cats were sacred to Bast, the practice of mummification was extended to them, and the respect that cats received after death mirrored the respect they were treated with in everyday life. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that in the event of a fire men would guard the fire to make certain that no cats ran into the flame. Herodotus also wrote that 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. Such was the strength of feeling towards cats that killing one, even accidentally, incurred the death penalty. Another Greek historian, Diodorus Siculus, describes an interesting example of swift justice imposed upon the killer of a cat: about 60 BCE, he witnessed the chariot of a Roman soldier accidentally run over an Egyptian cat. An outraged mob gathered and, despite pleas from pharaoh Ptolemy XII, killed the soldier.

- Rosie