Cultural references to chickens
There are numerous cultural references to chickens in
Roosters are sometimes used for a divination practice called Alectryomancy, a Latin phrase combining "rooster" and "divination". Sacrificing a sacred rooster, or Alectormancy, often takes place during a ritual cockfight,[2] which is used as a form of communication with the gods.
Ancient Greece and Rome
In Greek mythology, Alectryon was the guard of Ares, waiting beside his door and alerting him if anyone came near while he was sleeping with Aphrodite, wife of Hephaestus. However, Alectryon once fell asleep, and Helios, the sun, saw the two lovers and alerted Hephaestus. In anger over Alectryon's incompetence, Ares turned Alectryon into a rooster for his disobedience, thus fulfilling his promise to Ares for eternity.[3][4] The rooster was one of Helios' sacred animals.[5]
In Ancient Greece, chickens were not normally used for sacrifices, perhaps because they were still considered exotic animals. Due to its valor, the cock is often depicted as an attribute of Ares, Heracles, and Athena. The alleged last words of Socrates, as recounted by Plato, were: "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?", signifying that death was a cure for the illness of life.
The term "Persian bird" for the rooster appears to have been given by the Greeks after Persian contact because of their great importance and religious use among Persians.[6]
The Greeks believed that even lions were afraid of roosters. Several of Aesop's Fables reference this belief. The poet Cratinus (mid-5th century BC, according to the later Greek author Athenaeus) calls the chicken "the Persian alarm". In Aristophanes's comedy The Birds (414 BC) a chicken is called "the Median bird", which points to an introduction from the East. Pictures of chickens are found on Greek red figure and black-figure pottery.
In Ancient Greece, chickens were still rare and were rather prestigious food for symposia.[7] Delos seems to have been a center of chicken breeding (Columella, De Re Rustica 8.3.4). "About 3200 BC chickens were common in Sindh. After the attacks of the Aria people, these fowls spread from Sindh to Balakh and Iran. During attacks and wars between Iranians and Greeks, the chickens of Hellanic breed came to Iran and about 1000 BC Hellenic chickens came into Sindh through Medan".[8]
The mythological basilisk or cockatrice is depicted as a reptile-like creature with the upper body of a rooster.[9][10] Abraxas, a figure in Gnosticism, is portrayed similarly as well.[11]
The Romans used chickens as oracles, both when flying ("ex avibus", Augury) and when feeding ("auspicium ex tripudiis", Alectryomancy). The hen gave a favourable omen ("auspicium ratum"), when appearing from the left (Cic., de Div. ii.26), like the crow and the owl.
According to
In 249 BC, the Roman general Publius Claudius Pulcher had his sacred chickens[14] thrown overboard when they refused to feed before the battle of Drepana, saying "If they won't eat, perhaps they will drink." He promptly lost the battle against the Carthaginians, and was heavily fined for impiety back in Rome.[15]
In 162 BC, the Lex Faunia forbade fattening hens on grain, a measure enacted to reduce grain demand.[16] To get around this, the Romans castrated roosters (capon), which resulted in a doubling of size, despite a law in Rome forbidding the consumption of fattened chickens. [16]: 305 According to Aldrovandi, capons were produced by burning "the hind part of the bowels, or loins or spurs"[17] with a hot iron. Fattening chickens with bread soaked in milk was thought to give especially delicious results. The Roman gourmet Apicius offers 17 recipes for chicken, mainly boiled chicken with sauce. All parts of the animal are used: the recipes include the stomach, liver, testicles, and even the pygostyle.
The Roman author Columella advises on chicken breeding in the eighth book of his treatise, De Re Rustica (On Agriculture). He commented on various breeds of chicken and their uses in different functions, ideal practices of flock keeping, construction of chicken coops, what feed to use, and when to slaughter.
East Asia
The
Many roosters are found around
Southeast Asia
Indigenous beliefs on the veneration of spirits and deities still remain strong in
In East Timor the cock is admired for courage and perseverance. Man's courage is often compared with that of the cock, and cockfights are a regular occurrence. Many tais designs include the cock.[22]
In
The
North America
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Chickens are ritually sacrificed in the Santería religion which originated in Cuba and developed from native Caribbean culture, Catholicism, and the Yoruba religion of West Africa.[32]
South Asia
The Khasi people of Northeast India believe the rooster is sacrificed as a substitute for humans, as it's thought that the cock "bears the sins of the man." in sacrifice.[33]
Hinduism
Likewise, a popular Hindu ritual form of worship from
Africa
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Europe
In many Central European folk tales, the devil is believed to flee at the first crowing of a rooster.
In modern Greece, when laying the foundation of a new building, it is customary to sacrifice a cock, ram, or lamb, and let its blood flow on the stone of the foundation.[39]
The
A black cockerel was believed in
Norse mythology
In
Old Norse:
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English:
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The völva then describes three roosters crowing: In stanza 42, the
Middle East
In Iran, during the Kianian Period, from about 2000 BC to about 700 BC, the cock was a highly sacred animal; after Persian contact, the Greeks began to refer to the cock as the "Persian bird" due to its significance in Persian culture.[52]
Astrology and the constellations comprising the zodiac originated in ancient Babylonia, modern day Iraq. The lore of the True Shepherd of Anu (SIPA.ZI.AN.NA) – Orion and his accompanying animal symbol, the Rooster, with both representing the herald of the gods, being their divinely ordained role in communicating messages of the gods.[citation needed] "The Heavenly Shepherd" or "True Shepherd of Anu" – Anu being the chief god of the heavenly realms.[53] On the star map, the figure of the Rooster was shown below and behind the figure of the True Shepherd, both representing the herald of the gods, in his bird and human forms respectively.[54]
Islam
The understanding of the divine spiritual endowment of the rooster within
Zoroastrianism
Judaism
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Judaism includes many references to roosters as important animals. The
The Talmud provides the statement: "Had the Torah not been given to us, we would have learned modesty from cats, honest toil from ants, chastity from doves and gallantry from cocks"[65] (Jonathan Ben Nappaha. Talmud: Erubin 100b), which may be understood as the gallantry of cocks being taken in a religious context of a "girt one of the loins" (Young's Literal Translation) which is to be "stately in his stride" or "move with stately bearing" as within the Book of Proverbs 30:29-31. Saadia Gaon identifies the definitive trait of a "cock girded about the loins" within Proverbs 30:31(Douay–Rheims Bible) as "the honesty of their behavior and their success",[66] identifying a spiritual purpose and use within Judaeo-Christian traditions. The Hebrew term zarzir, which means "girt"; "that which is girt in the loins" (BDB 267 s.v.) is recognized in the Targum as well as the Chaldaic, Syriac, Arabic, LXX, and Vulgate, all referencing the fighting rooster or fighting cock as a religious vessel. The ancient Hebrew versions identified the Hebrew "a girt one of the loins" of Proverbs 30:31 as a rooster, "which most of the old translations and Rabbis understood to be a fighting cock",[67] the Arabic sarsar or sirsir being an onomatopoeia for rooster (alektor) as the Hebrew zarzir of Proverbs 30:31. "Rooster bones were identified at Lachish dating to early Iron II",[68] but even earlier is not to be ruled out, as "for Palestine, the earliest chicken bones are present in Iron Age I strata in Lachish and Tell Hasben".[69]
The rooster has also been placed within the
Christianity
In the New Testament, Jesus prophesied the betrayal by Peter: "Jesus answered, 'I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.'"[76] It happened,[77] and Peter cried bitterly. Earlier, Jesus compares himself to a mother hen when talking about Jerusalem: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing."[78]
Within the Christian "Tomb of the Cocks" in
Reverend Dr.
Similar illustrations of cocks in fighting stance
It is known that
In the
In art and literature
Visual depictions of
Abraham Valdelomar's 1918 tale El Caballero Carmelo depicts a cockfight between the protagonist, a cock named Carmelo, and his rival Ajiseco from a child's perspective, who considered this bird as a heroic member of his family. Nathanael West's 1939 novel The Day of the Locust includes a detailed and graphic cockfighting scene, as does the Alex Haley novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the miniseries based on it.
In
Charles Willeford's Cockfighter (1962) gives a detailed account of the protagonist's life as a 'cocker'. The book On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier describes a cockfight at a fiesta.[99] In Lasana M. Sekou’s 1997 novella Brotherhood of the Spurs, the title story of his James Michener Fellow collection of short stories, a cockfight in the 1960s is central to uniting the people of Sint Maarten during the partition by the French and Dutch in the Caribbean in 1648.[100]
Emblems
The cockerel was already of symbolic importance in
Among
The
The cockerel is the emblem of the Turkish sports club
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