Or perhaps the new version of cat-worship is just spending hours on I Can Haz Cheezburger and BoredPanda. I'm pretty sure the feline gods would be OK with that. That They Could Be Used For ...

Her cult center at Bubastis dates to the late Old Kingdom, c. 2200 BCE. It became the center of cat worship, and it was here that the millions of cat mummies were placed in tombs as votives to Bastet.

That soon expanded, and critters among the congregation have included everything from a few parrots -- who fortunately did NOT repeat every word of the liturgy-- to a regularly attending cat (on a ...

Human beings—including certain presidential candidates—can spend hours just watching cats be cats on the Internet. But scientists observe feline lives and behaviors in a far more advanced ...