Cat Breed - Birman

History of the Birman Cat

A legendary story tells of the hundred pure white cats with yellow eyes that guarded the sacred temple Khmer located in Burma. The temple, found on the side of Mount Lugh in Lao-Tsun, was protected by these felines long before the time of Buddha. Tsun-Kyan-Kse, a golden image with blue eyes, was housed inside the temple and was believed to reincarnate the bodies of priests into holy animals. The priest's souls were transferred into the body of the white cat and then passed onto the afterlife. The cats were considered a sacred pathway for the priests to pass onto the next life.

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