A starting point
"Dogs come when they are called. Cats take a number and get back to you"
Felinology is the study of cats. The term has a Latin-Greek origin and comes from the Latin word felinus (of cats, feline) and the Greek -logos (science). Felinology is concerned with studying the anatomy, genetics, physiology, and breeding of domestic cats.
Our study of cats won’t be quite as serious as the term Felinology implies, we only want to do it for fun, some of this stuff is quite heavy, but just gloss over those to the bits you enjoy.
We are going to approach this as cat lovers or ailurophiles, ailuro being Greek for cat and the suffix phile coming from an ancient Greek work for love.
Let us try and find some stories, folklore, allegory and indeed humour, that give us more information on the origins of the cat and how they came to be adopted into our lives.
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The Origins of the Cat according to Tales from the Cochiti Indians
At Painted Cave there was a village and out of this village came a deer and bear and lion and lynx and wildcat. "Now we will go east and find our living the best we can." Before they went they said, "There is one thing we have not got and that is the cat. But how can we get the cat?" The lion stood in the middle of the circle and all the oldest animals were smoking around him. He said, "Now I'm ready." He sneezed and out came a female cat from the right nostril. He sneezed again, and out of the left nostril came a male cat. From these two came all the little cats and they came down to Cochiti. The lion said to the cats, "Now you are the offspring of the lion and have my face. When you have kittens, people will want them, and with these cats they won't have mice any more. They will be watchmen (goatcini) of the houses. The rest of the animals shall live in the mountains, but these two cats shall live in Cochiti."
Author Ruth Benedict
There are several stories that date the creation of the cat at the time of the Flood. Noah and "The Flood" are included in the Book of Genesis in the bible.