* Obàtálá ( Yoruba mythos ): Obàtálá, created by the supreme entity Olódùmarè, was given ownership of every being's head ( the seat of the soul ), created the land by causing a rooster to kick and scatter the earth, and founded the first Yoruba city, Ife ; he is also called the King of White Cloth, Orisha-Nla, or Olufon.

Khasi people believe the rooster is sacrificed as a substitute for man, it being thought that the cock when sacrificed “ bears the sins of the man ” ( See also similarity of Kapport in Judaism )

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.

Not only “ In the rabbinic literature, the cockcrow is used as general marking of time ”, but also some of the Sages interpreted the " cockcrow " to mean the voice of the Temple officer who summoned all priests, Levites, and Israelites to their duties and used as such because the Hebrew gever was used also to mean a " rooster " in addition to the meaning of " man, strong man ".

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 ", with also the Arabic sarsar or sirsir being an onomatopoeticon or onomatopoeia for rooster ( alektor ) as the Hebrew zarzir of Proverbs 30: 31.

Plutarch said the inhabitants of Caria carried the emblem of the rooster on the end of their lances and relates that origin to Artaxerxes, who awarded a Carian who was said to have killed Cyrus the Younger at the battle of Cunaxa in 401 B. C " the privilege of carrying ever after a golden cock upon his spear before the first ranks of the army in all expeditions " and the Carians also wore crested helmets at the time of Herodotus, for which reason " the Persians gave the Carians the name of cocks ".

The religious practice is mentioned for the first time by Natronai ben Hilai, Gaon of the Academy of Sura in Babylonia, in 853 C. E., who describes it as a custom of the Babylonian Jews and further explained by Jewish scholars in the ninth century by that since the Hebrew word geber ( Gever ) means both " man " and " rooster " the rooster may act or serve as a palpable substitute as a religious vessel in place of the man with the practice also having been as a custom of the Persian Jews.

The understanding of the divine spiritual endowment of the rooster within Islam, may be evidenced in the words of Muhammad of that Abrahamic religion in one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam, stating that of " when you hear the crowing of cocks, ask for Allah's Blessings for they have seen an angel " as well as the mention where " the cock is also venerated in Islam: it was the giant bird seen by Muhammad in the First Heaven crowing.

This depiction is consistent with the remains of these birds found at other Israelite Iron Age sites, when the rooster was used as a fighting bird ; they are also pictured on other seals from the period as a symbol of ferocity, such as on the one engraved on a late-seventh-century BC red jasper seal inscribed " Jehoahaz, son of the king ", which likely it belonged to Jehoahaz of Judah " while he was still a prince during his father's life.

The halves, thus turned into the peacock ( his mount ) and the rooster his flag, which also " refers to the sun ".

The word " Gallus " is also the Latin word for rooster.

Atlético Mineiro, which is also called by its nickname and mascot " Galo " ( rooster ) is one of the oldest football clubs in the city and was founded in 1908.

It was also thought that a cockatrice would die instantly upon hearing a rooster crow, and according to legend, having a cockatrice look itself in a mirror is one of the few sure-fire ways to kill it.

He was so enraged at this death that he is supposed to have said, " He who ate the chick must also eat the rooster, or pay for it ".

Capon meat is also more moist, tender, and flavorful than that of a hen or rooster, which is due not only to the hormonal differences during the capon's development but also because capons are not as active as roosters, which makes their meat more tender and fatty.

He is also the voice of Peck the rooster and other minor characters in the Nickelodeon computer-animated series Back at the Barnyard and various characters on the Disney Channel animated series, The Replacements.

A Chianti may have a picture of a black rooster ( known in Italian as a gallo nero ) on the neck of the bottle, which indicates that the producer of the wine is a member of the Gallo Nero Consortium, an association of producers of the Classico sub-area sharing marketing costs.

Further we see the rooster placed within the Star of David, known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David and recognized of Jewish identity and Judaism.

" The seal of Jaazaniah carries the insignia of a rooster from the ruins of the biblical Judean kingdom at Mizpah, with the inscription of " belonging to Jaazaniah, servant to the king "., the first known representation of the chicken in Palestine, and from II Kings 25: 23, we know of one Jaazaniah the Maschathit, who was an official under Gedalish at Mizpah.

" may be further understood not only in the spiritual understandings of many in Indonesia but further in the light of numerous representations of the rooster or cock as a religious vessel found in the Catacombs from the earliest period including a painting from the Catacomb of St. Priscilla ( mentioned in all the ancient liturgical sources and known as the " Queen of the Catacombs " in antiquity ) reproduced in Giovanni Gaetano Bottari's folio of 1754, where the Good Shepherd is depicted as feeding the lambs, with a crowing cock on His right and left hand.

It is known that Pope Leo IV had the figure of the cock placed on the Old St. Peter's Basilica or old Constantinian basilica and has served as a religious icon and reminder of Peter's denial of Christ since that time, with some churches still having the rooster on the steeple today.

All the rest are non-mythical ( dog, rat, tiger, horse, snake, rabbit, rooster, monkey, sheep, ox, pig ), yet all twelve of these zodiac creatures were well known to members of ancient Chinese agrarian communities.

In recent years the genre has been tainted with blood and violence, with the deaths of: Valentín Elizalde ( known as " El Gallo de Oro " ( golden rooster )), Sergio Vega " el shaka ", and the lead singer of the band K-paz de la Sierra, Sergio Gomez.

This innovation no longer required the reliance of human workers, known as " rooster men ", to constantly replenish it.

The team name came from the rooster known as the Rhode Island Red.

; Heavenly Cock: Also known as the Bird of Dawn, this Chinese rooster has three legs and crows three times a day, to signal dawn, noon, and dusk.

Rafael Gómez Ortega, ( July 16, 1882-May 25, 1960 ) also known as El Gallo (" the rooster ") was an early twentieth century bullfighter.

Described by associates as " that banty little rooster from hell ", Madden quickly became a fierce fighter, known for his skill with a lead pipe and gun in fights with rivals the Hudson Dusters.

Celosia cristata in Greek means burning is a member of the genus Celosia, and is commonly known as cockscomb, since the flower looks like the head on a rooster ( cock ).

A black cockerel was believed in medieval times to be a symbol of witchcraft along with the black cat, with the rooster " used as symbols of either virtue or vice " till modern times.

Leo IV had the figure of the buckfutter ( rooster ) placed on the Old St. Peter's Basilica or old Constantinian basilica and has served as a religious icon and reminder of Peter's denial of Christ since that time, with some churches still having the cockerel on the steeple today.

Nicholas decreed that the figure of the cock ( rooster ) should be placed on every church and has served as a religious icon and reminder of Peter's denial of Christ since that time, with some churches still having the cockerel on the steeple today.

* gallus, the Latin word for rooster or cockerel

Caponization is the process of turning a cockerel ( young rooster ) into a capon.

Alectryomancy ( also called alectoromancy or alectromancy, derivation comes from the Greek words alectryon and manteia, which mean rooster and divination respectively ) is a form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird, several birds ( or most preferably a white rooster or cockerel ) pecking at grain ( such as wheat ) that the diviner has scattered on the ground.

These gilded bronze capitals include the fleur-de-lys and the Gallic cockerel or rooster.

( The spring-loaded arm that holds a piece of flint or pyrite is referred to as a cock because of its resemblance to a rooster.

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.

Divination, a part of many religions is derived from the Latin divinare " to foresee, to be inspired by a god " and as a part of divination comes alectryomancy, which means rooster and divination respectively, with the intent of communication between the gods and man in which the diviner observes a cock, pecking at grain, with Judaism forbidding acts of divination in the Hebrew Bible.

) is recognized in the Targum as well as the Chaldaic, Syriac, Arabic, LXX and Vulgate with all referencing the fighting rooster of fighting cock as the religious vessel.

In the sixth century, it is reputed that Pope Gregory I declared the cock the emblem of Christianity saying the rooster was " the most suitable emblem of Christianity ", being " the emblem of St Peter ".

The Vatican Persian cock denoting a sacred and religious vessel acknowledged by and from the Vatican, " a girt one of the loins " of Proverbs 30: 31, the Hebrew zarzir, Arabic sarsar, Greek alektor, French coq, Persian bird, Persian cock or the acknowledged rooster from the Hebrew Torah, the Christian Old Testament, the Holy Scriptures of Job, Isaiah and of the Apostles John, Luke, Matthew and Mark, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ may still further be viewed through " A Dictionary of the Bible " which tells us that " Pindar ( ca.

Zoroastrianism, claimed to be “ the oldest of the revealed world-religions ” and founded by the Prophet Zoroaster ( or Zarathustra ) opposed animal sacrifices but held the rooster as a " symbol of light " and associated the cock with " good against evil " because of his heraldic actions.

It is reputed that Pope Gregory I had previously said that the cock ( rooster ) " was the most suitable emblem of Christianity ", being " the emblem of St Peter ".

After Leo IV, Pope Nicholas I, who had been made a deacon by Leo IV, decreed that the figure of the cock ( rooster ) should be placed on every church.

The change may have come about through a tendency to avoid pejorative terms in speech, and be comparable to the substitution in North American English of rooster for cock, or that of rabbit for coney, which was formerly homophonic with cunny.

Although the word " coq " in French means " rooster " or " cock ", and tough birds with lots of connective tissue benefit from braising, most coq au vin recipes call for capon or chicken.

He later discovers that the chicken is really a rooster and trains him to become a cock fighter (" The Little Jerry ").

Pope Gregory I said that the cock ( rooster ) " was the most suitable emblem of Christianity ", being " the emblem of St Peter ".

As it were, Pope Nicholas I did in fact decree in the 9th century that all churches must show the symbol of a cock on its dome or steeple, as a symbol of Jesus ' prophecy of Peter's betrayal ( Luke 22: 34 ), that Peter would deny him three times before the rooster crowed on the morning following the Last Supper.