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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