The legend states that many years ago before the birth of Buddha the Kymer people of Burma who were very devout, built wonderful temples to their Goddess Tsun Kyan-Kse. The most beautiful of these temples at Lao-Tsan contained a solid gold statue of the Goddess, with sapphire eyes. The priests of the temple also kept one hundred pure white cats as companions and temple guardians. The elderly head priest Mun-Ha had an especially devoted friend in his cat Sinh.
One night, raiders attacked the temple, killing the priest Mun-Ha. Immediately the cat Sinh leapt to assist his master, and as he stood on Mun-Ha’s body lying before the golden Goddess, the priest’s soul entered into Sinh and his appearance was changed to one of great beauty, that of a seal-point Birman complete with golden tipped coat and sapphire eyes. Only Sinh's paws touching his master's body remained white. Inspired by this sign from the Goddess the other priests drove out the raiders and saved the temple.
Sinh lived for seven more days without either food or water, before dying and taking his and Mun-Ha’s souls into Paradise. The next day, the remaining temple cats were found to be transformed like Sinh, and from then onwards they were regarded as Sacred Cats, and thought to contain the souls of priests on their way to heaven.
Picture above is Supreme Gold Ch. Kasario Dream Weaver