From May through October of 2023 I presented at the Cathenge Cat Temple installation at Hayes Valley, San Francisco, a bi-weekly series of “Space Cat Sessions” that were multi-media presentations, PowerPoint Presentations, telling the story of the “Cathenge Mythos”, the Saga of the Lyran Space Cats. I told the story of how the Space Cats lost their Love Planet of Lemewria in a catastrophic conflagration with the Dreaded Disco-Reptilians and how they transubstantiated to Planet Earth in the height of the Ice Age and eventually created humankind as pro-wrestling species for their feline amusement. These events sometimes featured live music and dancing, and were always opened with the recitation of the “Space Cat Ballad” (see below) and concluded with a supplementary talk on the making of Cathenge.
Space Cat Ballad
When your cat does purr purr and purr
Hark ye unto her timeless wisdom pure!
When your cat looks upward to the stars
Within her soul something special stirs.
Does not that messenger of light,
Beautiful Vega, shining bright,
Embellishing the Northern Sky,
Reflecting upon her upturned eye,
Bestow dreams unto her feline mind?
Of long lost forgotten fates entwined,
And speak of a cat civilization of the past
That ruled the interstellar spaces vast.
Did not bipedal spacecats a zenith reach?
Universal wisdom did they not teach?
The arts of pleasure they most enjoyed
And yet their love planet was destroyed.
When your cat does purr purr and purr
Hark ye unto her timeless wisdom pure!
If a cat could but shed a grieving tear
She’d shed as many as she sheds fur.
Here begins a cosmic tale of cats in space,
And strange beginnings for the human race.
The story of Lemewria and the Catolith
– Feline symbols of an antediluvian myth.
Here too the tale of lizards on the make
And all the devastation left in their wake.
The Disco Reptilians with all their might
Did so mercilessly the cat world smite!
Never ever say that all is completely lost:
Twenty-three light years some cats were tossed
From Vega to Earth at the Ice Age’s close
And the Cult of the Cat Priestess there arose!
When your cat does purr purr and purr
Hark ye unto her timeless wisdom pure!
Unexplainable monuments in every land
Mystic secrets of the ancient feline mind!
When the Cat Priestesses from outer space
Purred in harmony the huge stones into place.
The great pyramids rose up to meet the sky –
Only the sphinx and I know the reason why . . .
And Cat Priestesses of the Northern Isles
Employing all their witchy ways and wiles
To levitate alone each stone of Stonehenge –
Withstanding relentless Reptilian revenge!
All the great ruins of all forgotten ages
Are sacred books with stones instead of pages
All these temples cat people did construct
For their child, the human race, to instruct.
When your cat does purr purr and purr
Hark ye unto her timeless wisdom pure!
In her heart dwells sweet holofelinity
The feline form of universal divinity.
Crystalline cat cities of icy towers melted away
When those crazy lizards came to earth to play
Lemewrian civilization vanished in the flood
And yet the Cat Priestesses called not for blood.
The Disco Reptilians for all their rage and might
Could not extinguish that feline inner light:
Each act of hate was by boundless love repaid.
And so the lizard fury did falter and did fade.
Mighty Cats from outer space may no more yet be
But in the humble housecat echoes their legacy
No more clever being than a cat roams this earth
In her meditative mind she is certain of her worth.
When your cat does purr purr and purr
Hark ye unto her timeless wisdom pure!
When your cat does purr purr and purr
Hark ye unto her timeless wisdom pure!
Hark ye unto her timeless wisdom pure!
