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Sacred and lovely cats and kittens in the Temple of the God Horus at 'Behdet' (Edfu). In the Egyptian Religious Tradition the cats are one of most sacred and venerated animals. The cats are sacred because they participate in the nature of the Divine, and the same for all the other sacred animals (like the cow, the bull, the baboon, etc.). In particular, male cats are forms of the God Ra and of the God Horus of Behdet (Edfu V 269,19), while female cats are forms of the Goddess Bastet (usually rep