Notes - gallows humor /

         Up before light, which isn’t saying much this time of year. You are sitting in the black chair in the bedroom and Jadah the Cat is sitting on the scanner above and to your right, and looking very regal-like. – Amorella

         Yes. She reminds me of the Egyptian sculpture of such a cat. Very cool.

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The Egyptians viewed their gods not as spirits but as intelligences that could be personified in a body. The earliest evidence of cats as deities comes from a 3100 BC crystal cup decorated with an image of the lion-headed goddess Mafdet. The goddess Bast was originally depicted as a fiercely protective and warlike lion, like Sekhmet, but as Bast's image "softened" over time she became more strongly associated with domestic cats.

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 BC, 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.

From: Wikipedia

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         Jadah is no goddess of course but the critters do have a refined animal intelligence: an easily noted (by humans) sense of practical observation along with a balance of not always so practical sense of curiosity. Besides, she is cute and cuddly. Uh, I think I have lost my point.

         Perhaps she is your needed “cat scanner” orndorff. Post. – Amorella

         I did not get the joke.

         Obviously, and what practical sense does this show you have? – Amorella

         A slower sense of gallows humor, at best.