THE COCK - PORTRAIT OF A REMARKABLE BIRD

The cock has always been a remarkable symbolic creature which can be t raced back to early advanced civilisations. The cultic origins of the cockfights staged by man may be just as old. As a pugnacious and vigil ant bird which announces the new day the cock had been an attribute to the ancient gods and found its way into Christian iconography. All ov er the world the cock plays a manifold role in religion, mantic, popul ar beliefs, magic, medicine, art and literature.