If we try to discover the reasons why the wild cat should have become a domestic animal, we meet with widely differing causes according to the historical period and the individual country.
When, some 4,000 years ago, the Middle Kingdom Egyptians moved southwards up the Nile to attack the fabled land of Kush (Nubia), to seize the gold that was to make Egypt rich, they also encountered there the Nubian Kaffir cat. Whereas the Nubians called it ‘Gadiska’, the Egyptians simply named it after its voice, ‘Mu’.
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