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A tabby cat with a white spot on its chest and around its nose rides along the bank of the Nile on a mythical animal resembling a capybara. The animal has brown fur, large eyes on a round head, two backward-pointing horns close together at the back of the head. The animal has two long teeth for defense and spines at the end of its tail like a hedgehog. The animal walks slowly forward, one front leg slightly raised for the next step. Around on the side of the valley is a landscape with bushes, behind them are orange sand dunes, behind the dunes you can see a large limestone rock resembling an alone head of a male lion with closed eyes emerging from the sand, sand dunes around the head.
According to feline legends, the first cat arrived in Egypt from the cats' ancestral homeland riding a mythical beast. The mythical creature is a female herbivore; she managed to find food along the way and fed the cat with her milk during the journey. They completed the long trek together, though the cat is now sleepy. They arrived in Egypt at a time when the Sphinx had only a lion's head—merely hewn from a natural formation that already resembled one. This was thousands of years before the Sphinx was given a body, and thousands of years before Hemiunu had its head recarved into the likeness of the Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops). In Egypt, the descendants of this cat became gods.
In reality, cats were brought to Egypt from Mesopotamia by Arab traders. Cats already lived in Egypt, but the newly arrived ones were domesticated and accustomed to living with humans in their homes; their offspring—mixed with the local cats—inherited these traits. The Greeks later brought these highly domesticated Egyptian cats (which hunt even when not hungry) to Europe.
