// ============================================== // Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com // Free for all; but please leave in this header. // ============================================== var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! // Set up the quotations to be shown, below. // To add more quotations, continue with the // pattern, adding to the array. Remember // to increment the Quotation[x] index! Quotation[0] = "The one who started it all:
Maicis, the primitive ancestor of cats was a small, tree-dwelling creature who lived in the late Eocene Period, some 45 to 50 million years ago."; Quotation[1] = "To Rule Divine:
Bouhaki, the earliest cat name on record, dates back to Egyptian writings of 2000 BC. In the hieroglyphs of the period, bou signified house and hak was the symbol for divine ruler."; Quotation[2] = "Being what it was:
The first true cats came into existence about 12 million years ago."; Quotation[3] = "Picture This:
One of the first pictures of the domesticated cat is found in Egypt within the tomb of Ti. The picture shows a cat with its neck in a wide collar and has been dated back to the fifth dynasty- about 2600 BC!"; Quotation[4] = "The fact is:
The Egyptian uprising that led to the deaths of Anthony and Cleopatra, was started because a Roman soldier was thought by the people to have accidentally killed a cat. The crowd in turn, lynched the soldier and dragged his body about town. The Romans threatened revenge, but the Egyptians rose up against the Romans and the fighting stopped only after the death of Anthony and Cleopatra. Then the cat formerly worshipped throughout the land was ostracized by the people."; Quotation[5] = "She always knew she was god-like
Ancient Egypt became so enthralled with the cat that the people not only bred her, used her, and loved her, but they began to worship the cat. Eventually placing it at the head of the hierarchy of animal-gods."; Quotation[6] = "Mummy’s little darlings:
In the mid- nineteenth century, archaeologists excavated a cemetery at Beni-Hassan Egypt and found it contained the mummified remains of three hundred-thousand cats! These cats were then shipped to England and sold for 4 pounds per ton to farmers for fertilizer."; Quotation[7] = "Revered Felines:
Cats became the objects of worship in Egypt because they kept down the rodent population, were trained for hunting by fetching back birds brought down by boomerangs thus helping to feed the families. Cats were mummified when they died and buried either with their owners, or is special cat cemeteries all over Egypt. They were also buried with embalmed mice."; Quotation[8] = "Stiff penalties:
In Ancient Egypt killing a cat was a crime punishable by death."; Quotation[9] = "Hair today, gone tomorrow
In Ancient Egypt family members shaved their eyebrows in mourning when the family cat died."; Quotation[10] = "The burning question
In the Middle Ages, during the Festival Of Saint John, cats were burned alive in town squares."; Quotation[11] = "The Eyes Have it:
The Egyptians believed that cats, which have exceptionally good visual powers were also seers into the occult. Their eyes, it was believed were capable of telling time, as cat’s eyes shone more brightly at a full moon and grew dimmer at its wane."; Quotation[12] = "Bet on Black
Charles I of England (1600-1649) had a black cat that he carried with him everywhere he went. He claimed that this cat was his \“good luck.\” When the cat died, the king went into mourning, wailing that his \“luck was gone!\” He was arrested the next day and later beheaded."; Quotation[13] = "I Am a Cat, Yes Siam!
In Siam the cat was so revered that one rode in a chariot at the head of the parade celebrating the new king."; Quotation[14] = "Domestic Affairs
Cats have been domesticated for half as long as dogs have been."; Quotation[15] = "Geographically speaking
The cat began to spread across the world slowly. The short-haired domestic cat came from Egypt while the long-haired cats came later from Turkey and Iran. Its widespread popularity continued to most countries early-on including India, China and Japan."; Quotation[16] = "The Devil Made Me Do It!
Except for one bleak period of persecution in the Middle Ages when cats were associated with the Devil and were massacred by the hundreds, by the Eighteenth Century cats had become popular household pets world-wide."; Quotation[17] = "Pilgrims Progress
The pilgrims were the first to introduce cats to North America."; Quotation[18] = "Mutant Genes:
It was a genetic mutation that occurred to produce the domestic cat, one tame at birth."; Quotation[19] = "Feline just fine
The first cat museum was built in Riehen, Switzerland and is called Katzenmuseaum. It opened in June of 1982. Now there are two more: the Musee du Chat in Ainvell, France, and the Kattenkabinet in Amsterdam, Holland."; // ====================================== // Do not change anything below this line // ====================================== var Q = Quotation.length; var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);} showQuotation();