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.