Cat people, this group of alien creatures with cute round heads, now has its own huge "servant" team in human society, living a boring life of "demolition of homes, sleeping, and gnawing mint". Among them, the strong can even get to the point of "inspecting the territory" in the Forbidden City. However, these "beast winners" who live in poverty actually have a passionate and prosperous period of ancestors.
The same as the ancestors were wolfs and had their own social attributes. It can be said that the dogs born to hunt with humans are different from dogs, and cats and humans are much later. Cyprus The co-burial tomb of humans and cats 8,000 years ago was discovered on the island of Cyprus, which became the earliest direct evidence that this magical species was domesticated and entered into human life. And their formal integration into human society and fulfilling exclusive responsibilities is what happened in ancient Egypt and two river basins 4,000 years later. The fertile soil brought about by the regular flooding of the Nile River has made the early agricultural society here very smoothly, and has also brought about abundance of food and a complete planting system. In order to protect the hard-earned rations from various bulk mice, cats, as natural enemies of mice, were chosen by humans. Cats use their natural hunting instincts as bargaining chips for trading with humans, and the rewards are stable feeding, a warm ball of fire, and exclusive territory with distinct boundaries without marking.
After a long relationship, cats gained a super high social status in ancient Egypt. Not only did "kill a cat" become a serious crime, but they could even have funerals that meet the standards when they died normally (the workers who pull stones and build pyramids do not have this treatment). Among the burial objects buried together, there are even mummies made of rats to ensure that these sacred creatures do not have to endure hunger in the country of the dead.
Finally, after completing the "class leap", the cat gained its own divine character. The elegant figure, nocturnal talent and the natural enemies of mice make the cat and the Best Goddess' attributes coincide (of course, it may also be to raise a cat first and then Best ). Naturally, they became the incarnation and messenger of Goddess Best, the guardian of the house and the guardian of the women, the mother and raising the pharaoh. Then, the cats successfully transformed the ancient Egyptian into the earliest "cat slave" in human history.
The prosperous economy allowed Egyptian aristocrats to have the need to conduct overseas trade. In order to ensure that the rations of sailors of long-distance sailors are not polluted by mice, the Egyptians brought cats onto the ship and spread this magical animal to every corner of the northern hemisphere.
is different from the prominent treatment in North Africa , cats are persecuted in the Catholic world. I don’t know if it is because of the cat’s nature of being independent and lacking the “loyalty” in human cognition, or because the black cat often acts as an important catalyst in the witch legend and the devil worship ceremony. Believers regard cats as disseminators of disasters. Even the wisest clergy at that time will give advice on "kill it quickly" when a cat appears at your doorstep. Therefore, after the Pope promulgated the Cat Destruction Act in 1233, Europe launched an indiscriminate massacre against cats. Both domestic cats and wild cats were treated cruelly, and for a time, " cat mouth withered."
Black cats and witches are still the intentions that often appear in modern literature and art. The picture is the Halloween skin of the leopard girl in LOL
But soon, the karma came. The sharp reduction in the number of cats caused serious rats. Bulk rats were unobstructed in the streets and houses of Europe, and also made fatal infectious diseases such as plague , which became an unavoidable shadow throughout medieval Europe. In the end, after the Black Death took away nearly 30 million Europeans, the cat returned, and the Catholic Church, which once had supreme secular rights, became the object of suppression by the later Renaissance and the Reformation movement, and has been timid until today.
And in the ancient China of Eastern hemisphere , there are also legendary stories between cat lovers and their cat owners.Lu You once introduced the causes and consequences of his love for pets in "The Book of Rats Against My Sentences/I Occasionally Get a Raced Slave/Catching and Killing Wuxu Sun/Groups of Rats Empty/To Compose This Poem", and brought out the customs and habits of "hiring cats" at that time. The title looks like the seven-character verse in the narrative. The author loves his "cat master" between the lines, and also reveals some shame that he cannot give luxury treatment to the cat because of his poor family.
未分类小水水美国, and I and the racute slave do not go out. ——Lu You's "Storm and Rain Works on November 4th"
As for those supreme rulers of the empire who have lived in the temple for a long time, many of them are loyal fans of cats. The carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao once raised a large group of cats in the palace and kindly gave them the love name of their children - "sushu" and "girl". Emperor Qianlong, out of his love for several cats in the Forbidden City, arranged for the painter to use Western sketching techniques to create a "seal painting" - "The Painted Chicken Slave Shadow in the Old Collection of Qing Palace in the Early Qing Dynasty". In this album, the elegant figures and agile figures of 10 cats appear on the paper, showing us more than 200 years later the wealth of this ancient empire in the last glory.
However, thanks to the "pragmatism" spirit of our ancestors, cats have not played any special role in our mythological system. Just because of my night walking habits, the cat has a little " mystical color" in folk stories, and has made the "black cat zombie fraud" a unique urban strange story in our cultural circle. After careful consideration, it is somewhat consistent with the "thousand-year tomb-keeping black cat" in the ancient Egyptian pyramids.
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In modern times, cats have gradually stepped down from the exclusive position of "Rat Catching Expert" in human society, and have changed their jobs to full-time pets. Humans have also brought the complex emotions of this species for thousands of years to a special literary form of electronic games.
"Niwang" once made Hattori Masaru hold a cat in his arms that he used to watch the time all the time. After seeing him taking out a "cute thing" from the inside of his clothes after a big battle with monsters and monsters, he always asked me to "subway, old man, mobile phone". The Monster Hunter series also regards Elucat as a secret mascot, and arranges them to become good helpers for hunters, and to be born and die together with these "human-shaped ancient dragons". Even in the world-leading work "Warm Cat Village", players are allowed to examine the unique equal cooperation relationship between hunters and cats from the perspective of Eloucat. Unfortunately, in the latest work "Monster Hunter: Rise", because of the emergence of "Didi Dog Beat", Ellucat almost lost her job in multiplayer online mode. It's really "life is not easy, cat sighs."
And the Japanese kingly RPG mobile game "Another Eden, Cat Beyond Time and Space" is one of the few JRPG works that let cats be the protagonist of the story (in various senses). The story theme of time and space travel brings players a variety of cats of different styles and styles. Whether it is the human settlements in the dinosaur era or the technological capital in the future ten thousand years, you can find "round-faced cute creatures" walking in various eras in the streets and alleys.
In the early stage of the plot, they are the clues running through the main line and the leader of various key characters. In the second half of the plot, the cat's scenes and worldview status suddenly increased by several orders of magnitude - the cat is the only creature with the ability to travel time and space under the entire worldview of "Another Eden". Finally, in the player's words "I'll go, I can still do this", the truth that "the protagonist is actually a pet cat" was left in front of all the audience. This surprising world view bottom design not only connects players' adventures for dozens of hours in multiple timelines, but also makes the "Cat beyond time and space" the second half of the game name that makes people half-understand seem so appropriate and clever.
Thanks to the game's time-traveling theme, "Another Eden" has a heavy soil that carries the linkage of multiple works, and has been able to evolve into another mobile game "linkage madman".With their unique settings, cats have become the "time traveler" who leads the linkage role to the world of "Another Eden". Whether it is "Persona 5" or " Super Time Wheel 2", these cute creatures play an important role in the plot of the linkage event. In this linkage event of " Legend Series ", I believe this excellent design will still be retained.
"Another Eden, Cat Beyond Time and Space" launched a linkage activity with "Legend Series" on the 12th, and added a "concerto story" that can be experienced at any time. At that time, not only will the well-known characters in the classic "Legend" works of all generations follow the guidance of the cute cats and come to the world of "Another Eden" to start their new round of legendary stories, but there are even the precious five-star linkage characters Cres, Mira, Yuli, and Viabel, free gifts. As for what kind of active performance will the "Brave Cat" that has turned into a human, let us go to the plot of "Another Eden" to find out.
