An extension of this is the sacred cockfight, ” a popular form of fertility worship among almost all Southeast Asians ” considered by some in the Judeo-Christian ethic as a form of ’ fertility worship ’ or Baalim.

Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to Theyyam gods, despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, Theyyam deities are propitiated through the cock sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

* The Aluk religion in the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight, known as bulangan londong or saung, is an integral part of the ceremony and considered sacred because of the spilling of blood on the earth in spiritual appeasement.

There are religious significance and aspects of the rooster and the cockfight which are exampled by the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious and spiritual cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice, where ritual fights usually take place outside the temple and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.

Aluk or Aluk To Dolo a sect of Agama Hindu Dharma as a part of religion in Indonesia, within the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight is an integral part of the religious ceremony and considered sacred within that spiritual realm.

Sacred Buddha amulet blessed in Wat Wangtakian Temple, Jorrakaepuek District, Kanjanaburee, Thailand Bayon Temple is an ancient Buddhist temple that also incorporates elements of Hindu cosmology includes “ a depiction of a cockfight ” within the walls of the temple.

Alectormancy though is also sacrificing a sacred rooster, with the use of the sacred rooster through alectryomancy further understood within that religious character and likewise defined as the rooster fight or cockfight or cockfighting with the intent of communication between the gods and man.

Balinese Hinduism also includes the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the religious and spiritual cockfight of the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah.

Despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism., Theyyam deities are propitiated through the rooster sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

In East Timor, one of the two predominately Christian nations in southeast Asia ( the Philippines being the other ), for some, the roof of the house is reserved for gods and spirits of ancestors, the lower portion remains for the nature spirit and usually occupied by animals, and the cock is admired because of courage and perseverance, with the courage of a man compared with that of the cock, with the cockfight occurring regularly and “ many tais designs include the cock ”.

A religious cockfight, spiritual cockfight or sacred cockfight, is cockfighting in religious or spiritual exercise, ritual, rite, ceremony or dedication which is considered sacred or worthy of spiritual respect or devotion ; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers in a given set of spiritual ideas.

The sacred is " dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity ", thus the sacred cockfight between two fighting cocks exhibiting agonistic behaviour is not to be confused with the blood sport of secular cockfighting.

A secular cockfight is a blood sport between two roosters ( cocks ), or more accurately gamecocks, held in a ring called a cockpit.

Advocates of the " age old sport " often list cultural and religious relevance as reasons for perpetuation of cockfighting as a sport, but secular cockfighting is not to be confused with the religious, spiritual and sacred cockfight.

In a 2010 trial of a Sheboygan Wisconsin Hmong that was charged with staging a cockfight, it was stated that the roosters were “ kept for both food and religious purposes ” resulted in an acquittal .” In Viet Nam fighting roosters or fighting cocks are colloquially called " sacred chickens ".

The question was decided through a fight between sacred roosters ", hence a sacred cockfight.

The use of the sacred rooster through alectryomancy may be further understood within that religious character and likewise defined as the cockfight or cockfighting with the intent of communication between the gods and man.

The question was decided through a fight between sacred roosters ", and thus a sacred cockfight.

In his work Pula Puti, he depicted a cockfight scene with roosters having human forms-the two gladiatorial roosters having strong, muscular physiques.

Similarly within the religious schema of Christianity and the cockfight within a religious, spiritual and sacred context, there are numerous representations of the rooster or the cock and the cockfight as a religious vessel found in the Catacombs from the earliest period as well as similar illustrations of cocks in fighting stance taken from the Vivian Bible.

Kaharingan, an animist folk religion of the Iban branch of the Dayak people, accepted as a form of Hinduism by the Indonesian government, includes the belief of a supreme deity as well as the rooster and cockfight in relation to that of the spiritual and religious and some with the belief that humans become the fighting cocks of god, with the Iban further believing the rooster and cockfight was introduced to them by god.

Similar illustrations of cocks in fighting stance are found within the Vivian Bible as well as the fighting cocks capitals in the Basilica of St. Andoche in Saulieu and the Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d ' Autun provides “ alternate documentation ” of the rooster and the religious, spiritual and sacred cockfight.

Gawai Dayak a festival of the Dayaks includes the cockfight and the waving of a rooster over offerings while asking for guidance and blessings with the rooster being sacrificed and the blood included in spiritual offering, while the Tiwah festival involves the sacrifice of many animals including the chicken as offerings to the Supreme God.

Again in 2011 a public interest litigation petition caused the Madras High Court Bench to grant permission to villagers of Kodaioor village to conduct a rooster fight during Deepavali coinciding with a local temple festival from the claims that the " villagers ' religious sentiments would be hurt if the cockfight was not allowed ".

Similarly a multitude of sarcophagi are found with the rooster and the sacred cockfight with the understanding of striving for resurrection and eternal life in Christianity.

The Hanshi festival was eventually moved to coincide with the Qingming Festival or the Pure Brightness Festival which still includes the rooster and cockfight.

It includes offerings for ancestors with spirit mediums sword fighting, spirit-possessed dancing, and spirit mediums cock fighting in a spiritual cockfight.

* still in the southern gallery, past the doorway leading to the courtyard, a scene with boats and fisherman, including a Chinese junk, below which is a depiction of a cockfight ; then some palace scenes with princesses, servants, people engaged in conversations and games, wrestlers, and a wild boar fight ; then a battle scene with Cham warriors disembarking from boats and engaging Khmer warriors whose bodies are protected by coiled ropes, followed by a scene in which the Khmer dominate the combat, followed by a scene in which the Khmer king celebrates a victory feast with his subjects ;

In 2008, Marichal was filmed at a cockfight in the Dominican Republic along with New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martínez.

The secular term gamecock, denoting purpose of the game, is actually a fighting cock and as such has been the vessel of religious and spiritual beliefs and exercise through the sacred cockfight of a religious and spiritual purpose.

" The sacrifice of a cock and a ritual cockfight was part of the Imbolc festivities in honour of the pan-Celtic goddess Brighid ".

The cockfight being of a religious character within Malayan sport from pre-colonial occupation and heavily influenced by animism where the shaman is seen to " recite and blow incantation to the birds for blessing and ‘ charmed water ’ sprinkled over them " where even as sport still " closely related to animistic tradition ( Clifford cited Gullick, 1991 )".

Animist beliefs extend to the rooster and the cockfight, ” a popular form of fertility worship among almost all Southeast Asians ” further considered by some within the Judeo-Christian ethic as a form of Baal or Baalim.

Gallo Morales ( Olmos ) returns home after being imprisoned for seven years for murdering a man over a cockfight.

In a Tao religious aspect, to have a rooster fight another rooster, was the same in substance as a fire-renewal custom, where the rooster and the cockfight then takes its place as an indispensable spring ritual, and “ Taoism, which assessed it positively in this form, can be thought to have guaranteed its continued existence ”.

The religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice of Balinese Hinduism includes a religious cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in a religious and spiritual cockfight, a spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah.

Balinese Hinduism also includes the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the religious cockfight of the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice.

The trip was a disaster even by their standards: Scott was beaten up when he tried to stop a cockfight and returned to the United States so intoxicated and exhausted that he was hospitalized.

* The 2009 song " Peeled Apples " from the Journal for Plague Lovers album by the Welsh band Manic Street Preachers includes the line referencing one of the novel's characters: " a dwarf takes his cockerel out on a cockfight.

The incident caused controversy in the United States, but Martinez defended their attendance at the cockfight by saying " I understand that people are upset, but that is part of our Dominican culture and is legal in the Dominican Republic ".

Another supposed origin of the name tells about the native fellow who was asked by a government agent as to what the name of the place was while watching a cockfight.