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A tall tale of a talking cat

Daisy's memoires

By Katherine D. GrahamPublished about a year ago 4 min read
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Daisy was born on a farm, adopted by my mother and bequeathed to me. Daisy held the familiar presence and caring spirit of my mother, offering support to manage thoughts, feelings and relationships. I was pleased to please her. Daisy knew how to sweeten the kitty. Cats have a righting instinct, which allows them to turn, while in the air, so they can land on their feet.

Curled up beside me, Daisy taught me to understand the foreign language of cat using pillow talk. I became an ailurophile, a cat lover. Following Dr. Dolittle’s technique of being willing to do little but observe, she would communicate by altering her posture, flicking her tail, adjusting her radar ears, giving a head butt on my hand, a slow blink, love bite or lick with her raspy tongue, or changing the tone of her purr.

I will let the cat out of the bag and share the message that she transmitted. Daisy had a pragmatic, realistic way of solving problems to suit the present conditions that was not limited to obeying fixed theories, rules or ideas. With a flash of the cat’s eye she said, "As humans changed from nomads to farmers, they elevated themselves in the animal hierarchy, and exploited animals as commodities. Respected animal totems were viewed with fear, hatred and contempt that spread to the human animal itself.

"Beware of people who dislike cats. They use the descriptor ‘catty’ to indicate devious and spiteful behaviour. This promotes misothery, a term describing hatred and contempt for animals and nature. It is seen in the expression, 'the cat’s got your tongue' that refers to when the tongue was removed from liars and fed to cats. The cat-o-nine-tails, a whip of knotted cords often tipped with metal, was used to flog slaves, soldiers and sailors.

"I come from an ancient blood lineage. Africats, originated in the cradle of civilization 9000 years ago. In the ancient game, the cat’s cradle, two individuals weave threads together into eight figures. Kurt Vonnegut, in his book ‘Cat’s Cradle’, suggests humans weave lies and narratives believed as truth. When an curious individual is stupid enough to ignore the needs of loved ones and becomes indifferent to potential wrongs, curiosity kills the cat.

" The ancient Egyptian feline deity, Bastet, the daughter and sacred, all-seeing eye of Ra, the sun god, was honored in the ‘purr-ymids’. She was the ‘perfumed protector’ of crops. Her mousing skills became valuable after the invention of agriculture and storage of grain stocks. Bastet carried the soul of the goddess of love and war, new beginnings and endings, protection and destruction. Strong-willed, fearless, kind, loving, caring, sweet and seductive, Bastet was gatekeeper to the underworld. She cared for the dead.

"Bastet holds the substance of Lavoisier’s laws, ‘Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.’ Bastet held a sistrum with a drum-like skin and a protective breastplate. You surely feel it passes through me when I sit on your chest and my purrs resonate through your heart.

"Cats have nine lives that are described in stories. The Owl and Pussycat describes the marriage of two wise spirits. St. Ives, with seven wives, cats, kits and sacks, describes the exponential effects described the puzzle of sevens in the Egyptian Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. Puss in Boots used cunning to introduce his master, a miller’s son, as the Marquis of Carabas. Carabus means a shell. Philo described the character Carabus who mockingly dressed as a king, based on tales of his contemporary, Jesus, before being crucified in a nearby village.

"The Cheshire cat appears and disappears with a grin as he guides Alice through the looking glass with riddles. The 'toujours gai ' Mehitabel the cat, who once occupied the soul of Cleopatra, was a friend of the reincarnated cockroach, Archie. Felix and Sylvester, direct descendants of Felix silvestris, possessed mischievous and slightly evil feline aspects also reflected in the Siamese cats in Lady in the Tramp, the Cat in the Hat and the curmudgeonly, arrogant and sarcastic Garfield. Currently, the cool cats include: the Chinese Blue cat, Lan Mao, who teaches science with 3000 whys; the Japanese robotic cat, Doraraemon, who can visit any era of time; Hello Kitty, the new version of the happy, lucky, waving welcoming Chinese and Japanese cat, Maneki-neko; and the curious lazy, fat cat Pusheen. Cats respond to the needs of the era.

"Fiction and theory, with authentic proof, transform into factual truth. Forty short peptide protein fragments spontaneously formed from stardust. Before there was life on earth, they differentiated, folded and rearranged, giving rise last Universal Common Ancestor in the primordial RNA -peptide world. Remnants integrated into the mitochondrial DNA were transmitted through plants and animals by females. Mitochondrial DNA indicate that cats originally stemmed from an Egyptian feline. During the medieval period, it was unlawful to sail without a ship’s cat. At ports, these cats bred with the locals and spread their genes. Cats have undergone little selective breeding, therefore wild and domestic cats, share 97% of their genes."

Daisy has long since crossed over the Rainbow bridge, but I still hear her talk and become filled with happy hormones that ease physical and psychological discomfort. Daisy was a master of CAT therapy, a cognitive analytic technique, that uses intelligent technologies to establish subtle meanings in language and logic and algorithms, to establish deep learning that layers over the original raw data.

Evidence suggests cats have trained humans rather than vice versa. Daisy taught me how to listen and process relationship patterns that developed because of past experiences. By recognizing good mental and physical health, it becomes possible to reformulate memories, so as to find ways to leave the cold and unconnected world of modern times. This allows a revision to the end to a story where positive influences in relationships with self and others satisfy the criteria of a life that is well lived.

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Katherine D. Graham

My stories are intended to teach facts, supported by science as we know it. Science often reflects myths. Both can help survival in an ever-changing world.

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