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Rooster - a male chicken; in a general sense, all male birds Galliformes family. Outwardly from the chicken is usually different large comb and earrings, and often magnificent and colorful tail.

Rooster in the cultures of the peoples of the world

Cock

Image of a rooster on a coin

The battle of two cocks

Rooster - one of the national symbols of France. It was sacred in Gaul; the phrase is based on the very pun: Lat. gallus at the same time also means "gal" and "cock."

Divination

Guessing by the rooster called alectryomancy.

Other facts

Red Rooster on the flag of Wallonia

Rooster - a symbol zadirchivosti and blood. For some people, there are still cockfights.

Eastern Slavs and Christian mythology is one of the most important functions of a rooster as a precursor - hour. His singing is the beginning of a new hour, when there are dark demonic forces. His singing rooster spevshy disperses evil until the next night. Having sung the third cocks - a sign of an even length of midnight to dawn - indicates the completion of the action of the impure forces.

Slavs in the construction of the house sacrificed black cock.

In Chinese tradition, the rooster with golden feathers, which sings three times a day (at sunrise, afternoon and at sunset), is the epithet of "heaven" and is considered to be the beginning of a human, a sign of human power "Yang".

In England, until the end of the XVIII century practiced bloody game, which was called "zakidyvanie cock" (eng. Cock throwing). It was the fact that the public threw things planted in the pot before the cock until the bird dies. Usually this fun practiced Pancake Tuesday (Carnival time). In some cases, a bird tied to the deck. Or those who are throwing things at him, blindfolded. In Sussex a rooster tied to a piece of flat material in five or six feet, so he could not bite those who are making fun of him.

Rooster in a variety of religions and beliefs

Since antiquity cock is a sacred animal in some cultures [2], which is deeply rooted in a variety of religious beliefs and worship. The concept of the Persian bird appeared after the Greeks had a contact with the Persians, "due to its great importance and use of religion among the Persians", [3] but long before that in Iran during Kiyanianskogo period (2000 BC. e -... 700 years BC), the cock was the most sacred animal [4]

Cock

Animism, shamanism and tribal religion

In South-East Asia, as well as in Mexico, the understanding of indigenous beliefs and deities of worship of spirits remain strong and many people who practice Christianity revere traditional spirits (Anito), as well as in the northern part of the Philippines. Animists beliefs apply to ordinary and fighting cocks, "a popular form of worship with the aim of high fertility in almost all the inhabitants of the South-East Asia", then, according to some people, according to Judeo-Christian morality, has become one of the forms of Baali.

Astrology

rooster Image

It is obvious that the zodiacal constellation in the astrological system of beliefs called "religion of the stars", originated in Babylon (including modern Iraq). Knowledge of the True Shepherd of Anu (SIPA.ZI.AN.NA - Orion and its accompanying animal symbol, rooster, presented together with the messenger of the gods are predetermining role for sending messages to the gods "Heavenly Shepherd" or "True Shepherd of Anu" was the chief god of the heavenly kingdom. . On the stellar map cock figure shown below and behind the figure of the True Shepherd, located with the messenger of the gods in his bird and human forms, respectively.

Nergal, who is the idol of the Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians, called "cock dung" [9] (The dictionary of phrases and fables, Brewer, 1900). The astrological mythology of the Assyrians and the Babylonians was based on the fact that an idol "Nergal is the planet Mars, which was once a symbol of bloodshed."

The rooster is the tenth of the twelve signs in the Chinese zodiac system.