Rooster

Rooster
Personality Traits:
People born under the year of the Rooster tend to hide their conservative natures via a display of aggression and self-confidence, however they are very "dignified".

The year of the Rooster brings forth enthusiastic, self-assured people. Roosters are quite industrious, and they often have a conservative streak that clashes with the more adventurous side of their nature.

Part serpent, part rooster (it had the wings of a bird, the tail of a dragon or serpent and the head of a cock), ...

For example, according to popular myth, Muraga slays two great demons which he transforms respectively into a rooster and a peacock. The rooster, hermetic herald of dawn, adorns his battle flag and the peacock becomes his mount or vehicle.

The cock, or rooster, was a symbol of Cashmala (Cadmillus) in the Samothracian Mysteries, and is also a phallic symbol sacred to the sun. It was accepted by the Greeks as the emblem of Ares (Mars) and typified watchfulness and defense.

PREPARE AN INK OF pure & genuine saffron mixed with rose- water, adding if possible some blood from a black rooster.

The Chinese have a list of twelve animals which mark their years: a child is born in the year of the boar, the rat, the ox, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the rooster or the dog - alternatively ...

Soon a cauldron was boiling with water from a beer barrel, into which went salt, black pepper, a black cat, a black rooster, a various powders, and a snake sliced in three pieces representing the Trinity.

woman first thing in morning; if one's head cast no shadow at the feast of the Epiphany, one would die within a year; corpses must be carefully enshrouded and buried to prevent the ghost from returning; perfectly round eggs were only laid by roosters ...

See also: World, Ritual, Spirit, Signs, Symbol