Religion
Fighting chickens of various breeds have long existed as evidenced by an Indus seal from Mohenjo-daro with an inscription of the Indus ideogram for "city" and a pair of cocks, inferring that the city's original name meaning was "the city of the cock". Fighting cocks are roosters of "fighting spirit", or the will to persevere even when faced with difficult obstacles or opponents through seemingly limitless courage, while being a male chicken of various breeds and may also be known as a gamecock due to the alternate purpose and use of secular cockfighting, with the first use of that term, denoting use as to a “game”, a sport, pastime or entertainment, being in 1646.
Fighting chickens of a religious, spiritual or sacred cockfight are the vessels of religious and spiritual beliefs and exercise and are not to be confused with the blood sport of cockfighting or a secular cockfight between two roosters or fighting cocks.
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism—at least in the sense of this work—is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”
—Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872)
“All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to children by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the philosophers celebrate in vain. And nothing stands between the people and the fictions except the silly falsehood that the fictions are literal truths, and that there is nothing in religion but fiction.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)