In a temple built on the sides of Mount Lugh, lived in
prayer the very holy Kittah Mun-Ha, a great Lama
holy of holies, the one of which the God, Song Hio
himself, has braided his golden beard.

Not a minute, not a glance, not a thought of his life
was not dedicated to the adoration, contemplation,
and holy service of Tsun Kyan-Kse, the goddess
with the sapphire eyes, the one who presided over
the transmigration of souls, the one who permits the
Kittahs to live again in a holy animal for the duration
of its animal existence, before taking again a haloed
body with the full and holy perfection of the great
priests.

Near him was meditating Sinh, his dear oracle, an
all-white cat whose eyes were yellow, yellow from
the reflection of the golden whiskers of his master
and from the golden body of the goddess with the
heavenly eyes ..... Sinh, the cat to advise, whose
ears, nose, tail and extremities of his legs were dark
like the colour of the earth, mark of the stain and
impurity of all that touches or can touch the ground.

Now, one night as the malevolent moon had permitted the murdering Phoums who came from
the hated Siam, to draw near the sacred place,
the Grand Priest Mun - Ha gently entered death,
having at his side his divine cat, and under his eyes
the despair of all his overwhelmed Kittahs ..... It was
then that the miracle came about - the only miracle
of immediate transmigration: in a bound, Sinh was
on the golden throne and sat on the head of his
sagged master, he leaned on that aged head
which, for the first time, was no longer
looking at the goddess.

And as he sat stiffened before the eternal statue,
one saw the bristly hair of his white spine become
suddenly golden yellow. His golden eyes became
blue, large and deep as the eyes of the goddess.
As he was gently turning his head to the south door,
his four paws which were touching the old skull
became dazzling white, up to the place that the silk
of the holy garments were covering. And as his eyes
were turning from the south door, the Kittahs obeying
his commanding look, which was full of serenity and
light, hurried in the first breeze to close the heavy
bronze doors.

The temple was saved from profanation - Sinh,
however, had not left the throne and on the seventh
day, without having made a move, facing the
goddess, eye to eye, he died - mysterious and
hieratic, carrying to Tsun Kyan - Kse the soul of
Mun-Ha, too perfect for the earth ......

And when seven days later, the assembled priests
consulted before the statue to decide on the
succession of Mun - Ha, all the cats of the temple
ran up, and all were dressed in gold with white
gloves and all had changed to deep sapphire the
yellow of their eyes, and in complete silence they
surrounded the youngest of the Kittahs so
thus reincarnated ancestors were designated
by the will of the goddess.



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