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Hymn of the Cat (Hymn of Bast)

“I am a great, yellow, stalking cat – Mesmerizer, Healer, Companion – tender and fierce, a beast of fur that blinks. I know what I know in my body. I hold the rat in my golden gaze. I lick the dust from my kittens. I am everywhere alert and at ease. I wait in the moment, no longer flesh and fur, but the fact of a thing that waits, patient and anonymous as stone. I am Cat: pounce, paws, and all. I am //Mau//, what I call myself. I am sun and dust, whiskers, milk and fur.”

Hymns of Bast