Harran Evleri - Türkiye Seyahat Acentaları Birliği

Algarve, Portekiz’de düzenlenen bir etkinlikte Garfield’ın kumdan heykeli. A sand sculpture of Garfield made in anevent organized in Algarve, Portugese. Shutterstock/Belaya MedvedicaWith time cats progressed and they evolved to many breeds and colors that we now know.Kedili AtasözleriHayatımızın içine bu kadar giren kediler,deyimlerimizde ve atasözlerimizde de kendilerineyer açtılar:• Kedi uzanamadığı ciğere mundar dermiş.• Kedi yavrusunu yerken sıçana benzetir.• Bakmakla öğrenilseydi kediler kasap olurdu.• Kedinin boynuna ciğer asılmaz.• Kedinin gideceği samanlığa kadar.• Kedinin kabahatini önüne koyarlar, öyle döverler.• Kedinin kanadı olsaydı, serçenin adı kalmazdı.• Kedinin usluluğu sıçan görünceye kadar.• Kediyi sıkıştırırsan üstüne atlar.• Cins kedi ölüsünü göstermez.Proverbs About CatsCats who are so much in our lives also have a placein our provers and expressions:• A cat say the liver it cannot reach is unclean.• A cat sees its kitten as a rat when it is eating it.• If you could learn by observing, cats would bebutchers.• You cannot place liver around a cat’s neck.• A cat can go as far as the hayloft.• They place the blame in front of a cat whenbeating it.• If cats had wings sparrows would not existanymore.• A cat’s calm is until it sees a rat.• If you corner a cat it will attack you.• A breed cat would not show its corpse.Original catAmong cat breeds of the present day especially two is considered to carry the origins of domesticated cats:Egyptian Mou and Abyssinian cat. According to experts these two breeds, remind of African Wild Cats seenon Ancient Egypt temple walls, with their cranium shape and body structure.Cat in art and IslamCats were friends of many authors and inspired many stories, novels and poems. Many poets including OrhanVeli, Nazım Hikmet, Oktay Rıfat, Metin Altıok, Özdemir Asaf, Namık Kemal and Arif Damar have poems aboutcats.In Islam cat signifies cleanliness and has a respectable place. According to the story, Mohammed theProphet, during his Uhud expedition ran into a cat nurturing its kittens.He placed a guard and insisted the whole army to go around the cat.After he returned from the expedition he asked the guard for the catand he domesticated this Abyssinian cat and named it “Müezza”.Mohammed the Prophet loved his cat Müezza so much that when itslept on his clothes one day, he cut his clothes in order not to disturbthe cat when getting up.Garfield; The Coolest CatGarfield, is a comic strip created by Jim Davis. It began its life in 1978.It exists in Guiness Records Book as the most published comic strip ina newspaper. A book, a TV show, and later a movie were based on it.The most popular features of Garfield are eating lasagna, gourmandism,hating Mondays and being on a diet.Louvre Müzesi’nde sergilenen 42x13 cm ebatlarındaki bronz kedi heykeliAntik Mısır’dan.The bronze cat sculpture exhibited in Louvre Museum is from Ancient Egyptand its dimensions are 42 to 13. wikipedia.orgTÜRSAB DERGİ | MAYIS 2013 53