The little Buddha and his nine lives: Ancient souls, hidden behind the moons of cats.

By Sahar Löwe

The Little Buddha and His 9 Lives
“Who, even for just a moment, hasn’t lost themselves in the peace of those deep eyes?”
The cat reads your soul with the eyes of the Gods. 
The author, in a rather original way, will lead you to explore not only the true essence of the cat. From scrupulously grasping its most spiritual and mystical aspects, but also going beyond time and space, through real stories to then being dressed as Sherlock Holmes trotting around the globe in search of “footprints” left by these “little” divinities.  Thus demonstrating their infinite potential, far from being just a simple pet. 

Note: This book is good for English level B2 readings and for all cat lovers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sahar Lowe
• Release date: Apr 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9791220286718

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Sahar Löwe

The Little Buddha and His Nine Lives

Ancient souls, hidden behind the moons of cats

ISBN: 9791220286718

Index

Cover

Index

Mention

Dedication

Introduction

1. The magical bonds with the Gods and spirituality

2. The cat is perhaps the most legendary animal ever

3 The Cat Eclipse

4.The Triumphant return of the Cat

5. Same Fate

6. But how many lives does a cat have?

7. The nine captivating lives of a cat

8. The cat, muse of great writers, painters and intellectuals

9. Countries you visit Cats you find

10. Guinness Curiosities

11. My brave cat

12. Unconditional love makes the difference

13. What is invisible to us is not invisible to the cat

14. Adopting a cat extends our lives

15. Why I love cats

16. The Sentinels of love

Conclusion

Mention

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

(Henry David Thoreau)

Dedication

This book is dedicated to those who cannot read the written word but have such mesmerising eyes that are able to touch our souls.  They are able to read our minds and our spirits.

Introduction

A moon has two profoundly different faces.  Yet, there was a time when the earth was two, then the moons merges and the cat fell on the roof.  It is in this reality that I intend to accompany you into the dark universe of the cat, preferring to explore their Buddahood, their beneficial presence, and thus bring to light the true essence of the feline, which is not a simple pet. 

What does the cat keep in its hypnotic pupils?

What secrets and how many lives have they dragged down from antiquity?

Good Introspection!

1. The magical bonds with the Gods and spirituality

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erpentine, elegant, attractive and even enchanting, enough to capture the interest of the powerful Egyptian Goddess Bastet.  Bastet was a symbol of femininity and sensitivity; as well as keeper of children, and eventually cats and their caregivers. 

The Goddess found cats fatally beautiful, not only for their divine aspect, but also the mysterious aura, being wrapped in an impenetrable shadow.

The Goddess believed that the magnificence of the cat respected the ideal beauty standard, giving birth to the use of kohl.  Shortly after, all Egyptian women began wearing dark eye make-up, outlining the contour of the eye, to stimulate a bewitching feline gaze. 

Figure 1 Like Cleopatra, the most intriguing queen in Egyptian history

Less known is Goddess Myeou, which takes her name from the onomatopoeic sound meow, from which the meaning of the word cat seems to originate.

Like Bastet, Myeou adored cats and spent a lot of time admiring these wonderful creatures. 

The Goddess was convinced that cat eyes held rays of sunlight to help them see in the darkest of darks.  This is why, even today, cats are still thought to see better at night.  Just think, these animals were so revered in Ancient Egypt that if a family cat died, all members of the family shaved their eyebrows as a sign of mourning.  The cat’s body was then mummified and subsequently placed next to the body of their deceased master. 

A treatment that certainly had nothing to envy to that of the Pharaohs!

In 2017 on an archaeological mission near Cairo, some burials of stuffed cats were found in the necropolis, dating back to over 4,000 years. 

Figure 2 The first discovery in the necropolis of Saqqara

When we position cats in history, the connection with the Egyptians is almost immediate.  We were besieged with images of the Goddess Bastet, the famous and refined black cat.

In reality, cats, thanks to the movements of traveling merchants, were known and loved even far from the Nile valley; many other civilisations have treated this feline with deep respect and reverence.  For example, the Arab countries, where the cat was taken in such sympathy that together with the horse, they became sacred.  Mistreating a cat was and still is considered a serious sin in Islamic culture. 

Here the cat the is the only animal that can enter and wander around the Mosques undisturbed.

In India there is the Goddess Shasti, a feline deity, depicted with the head of a cat: a symbol of fertility and motherhood.  The Greeks have Goddess Artemis, Freya (or Vanadis) Nordic Goddess, divinity of love and beauty, and her totem (guiding animal) was precisely the feline, to her they were made to consecrate domestic cats and