The messenger of the dawn is a symbol of the Sun and spiritual rebirth (in the Middle Ages, weathervanes in the form of roosters were installed on the spiers of houses and churches as a symbol of readiness to meet the morning dawn). These qualities of his prevail over pride, arrogance, lust, also inherent in him. The rooster is associated with the dawn, the Sun and light among all peoples, with the exception of the Celts and Scandinavians, where he is a messenger afterlife: the rooster governs souls, calls the dead to battle, warns the gods of danger.
IN Ancient Greece the rooster is an attribute or companion of many gods, including Zeus, Apollo, Attis, Persephone (gods and goddesses of rebirth), Ares and Athena (martial deities), Hermes (messenger of the gods) and Aesculapius (god of healing). In addition, he is a traditional bird for sacrifices. The Romans mean "the third watch of time": between midnight and dawn.
IN Western art the rooster can personify lust. This symbolism is also observed in other traditions: among the Romans, the rooster is a phallic totem; in English jargon, the word cock (“rooster”) means a male member; in a Tibetan mandala illustrating the teachings of the Buddha, the rooster is a symbol of lust. Among the Vatican treasures is a bronze statue of a rooster with a male torso and a penis head instead of a head; on the pedestal is written: "Savior of the world."
IN Christian tradition the symbolism of the rooster is generally positive. It is a symbol of light and rebirth, opposition to the darkness of spiritual ignorance. Often a rooster serves as a weather vane in churches, which symbolizes vigilance against all kinds of evil. According to folk beliefs, night ghosts and evil spirits disappear with the first cock crow. This solar protective symbolism inherent in the rooster can be traced back to ancient times, it was widespread in the Middle East. The symbolism of the rooster was imprinted by the legend of the renunciation of Christ by his disciple Peter. Wanting to warn Peter against betrayal, Jesus told him at the Last Supper: "The rooster will not crow until you deny me three times." The crowing of a rooster marked the end of that night. Evangelist Mark reports that after Peter's third denial, "the rooster crowed a second time." It was early Good Friday morning. The cock crow is a reminder of Peter's denial, but also a symbol of his repentance and service as the first pope. This legend is also reminiscent of the rooster sitting on the very top of the huge clock of Strasbourg Cathedral. Whenever the figure of Peter appears among the apostles, a cock crow is heard. For this reason, the rooster has become one of the attributes of St. Peter, who, in turn, is considered the patron saint of watchmakers.
Some African peoples consider the rooster a soothsayer and owner secret knowledge, therefore, they associate him with sorcerers.
In China, where the red cockscomb is associated with sunset and autumn, the word "rooster" is a homonym for "good luck"; a red rooster takes away the fire from the house, and a white one - ghosts; roosters may be sacrificed, but, out of respect, they are not eaten. The rooster is a symbol of the five Chinese virtues: dignity in war, nobility in peacetime, courage, reliability and generosity (the latter comes from the observed habit of the rooster to offer food found first to chickens and only then to eat it). A live rooster or its image is used in the funeral ceremony as a talisman to ward off evil.
In Japan, the rooster is a sacred animal. He is given complete freedom of movement Shinto shrines. The rooster calls worshipers to prayer, a reminder of how he once summoned the sun goddess Amaterama from the cave where she hid her light.
In Buddhism, the rooster personifies sensual desires and is one of the three emblematic animals (along with the pig and the snake) that accompany a person in the circle of birth and death.
In alchemy, the Rooster symbolizes the volatile part of the substance of the stone - living, active, dry water (as opposed to the image of the Fox). In the treatise of Vasily Valentin “The Twelve Keys” we read: “The Salt of the Stars is protected from damage; and when necessary, he will make them fly like a bird, and the Rooster will devour the Fox, jump into the water and drown, and then, gaining life with the help of fire, will be torn apart by the Fox.
In the eastern calendar, this bird - the only one from the feathered kingdom - belongs to the ninth year in a twelve-year cycle.
The Gauls wore the image of a rooster on their weapons and banners, later it became the emblem of Gaul (thanks to the play on words Latin, in which "gallus" means both "cock" and "gall"). In France, it is considered an emblem of independence and freedom, as well as cockiness and arrogance.
For Eastern Slavs when moving into new house the rooster played the role of the "double" of the owner. If the cock spent the night safely, then it was possible to move in. The rooster symbolized the element of fire, and was a talisman against evil spirits. His image often adorned the gable of the roof of Slavic dwellings. A popular ornamental motif on ritual and wedding towels. The symbol of the guy: on Christmas holidays, the girls guessed “for a rooster” in a circle: if the rooster comes up and pecks at a bunch of grain, then the groom will be rich and economic. Symbol of fire: "Let the rooster go." As the liveliest of birds (the famous "cockfight"), it serves as a symbol of struggle and combat.
In heraldry, when depicting a rooster, a comb and beard, an open beak (singing rooster) can be distinguished with special paint. A rooster with a raised leg means readiness to take the fight.
Oriental New Year not far off, and although it is not yet tomorrow, we traditionally take into account the New Year's oriental symbols. It's time to remember the symbols of the rooster, so to speak, global. The first thing I remembered was the Gallic rooster - one of traditional symbols France. The Gauls are the Celts who lived in what is now France. So here it is latin word"gallus" denotes both a gall and a rooster. The Romans called the Gauls so because they were all red-haired, but by nature they were bold, warlike and proud. The symbol has survived to our times and the French have nothing against it - the French character is associated with hot temper, courage and gallant attitude towards ladies. The global meaning of the symbol of the rooster is its connection with the sun and with the countdown, and this is very New Year's)
Carved amethyst cockerel, Gerd Dreyer, Germany
The rooster not only announces the beginning of a new day - it drives away evil forces, heralds the coming of the sun, symbolizes awakening. The rooster is an attribute of Apollo, Mithras, Ahuromazda, Amaterasu, Asclepius, Ares, Gemes, etc. He is also associated with deities dawn. Like the sun, the rooster is all-seeing and vigilant - therefore, its image is often placed on the roofs of houses, weather vanes, spiers. And just like the sun, the rooster is associated with underworld, therefore, the symbolism of the rebirth of life is associated with the rooster.
Vintage brooch
Rooster - very male symbol, was often used in antiquity in the context of phallic symbolism. The rooster is also a symbol of militancy, aggressiveness, courage, courage - it is not without reason that it serves as a symbol of the god of war Mars.
Cockerel, brooch, mother-of-pearl, crystal, Trifari
In year Fire Rooster, and 2017, starting from January 28, - just like that Eastern calendar, it is considered best to take up a career, since the Rooster patronizes leaders, loves courageous and hardworking people with a goal, does not like lazy people and does not stand on ceremony with whiners. In Feng Shui, the rooster is responsible for fame, popularity, luck and wealth. It’s not easy, it looks like a year is ahead) it’s time to start doing exercises in the morning) By the way, Pushkin’s fairy tale about the Golden Cockerel is an adaptation of the short story American writers Irving "The Legend of the Arab Stargazer")) and it is also about the same thing - you won’t be able to reign lying on your side)
And although the "red cock" in Russian sounds ambiguous - we are talking just about the fire element. And to match this bright fiery year- let's move forward boldly, proudly, cheerfully and beautifully!
Hen Cartier on display at the exhibition jewelry Cartier, owned by Princess Grace of Monaco, in Tokyo in the spring of 2009.
Hermitage mechanical peacock clock with an owl and a cockerel)
etc.), much wider. The rooster not only announces the beginning of the day (in many traditions, it acts as a herald of the sun, light, cf. the French name of the Rooster, lit. “singing dawn”), but is also the conductor of the sun both in its annual and daily cycles . In China, the Rooster "accompanies" the sun on its way through the tenth "house" of the Chinese zodiac (Capricorn) and through the fifth - seventh hours in the afternoon. Among the ancient Jews, the Rooster is a symbol of the third watch of the night - from midnight to dawn. The rooster is as alert and all-seeing as the sun. Hence the widespread use of the Rooster in divination, weather forecasts in Ancient Rome. The image of the Guardian Rooster was placed on the roofs of houses, poles, spiers, weathervanes, as well as on caskets, chests, reliquaries. In China, the red Rooster is depicted on the walls of the house as a talisman against fire. The motif of the Rooster dispersing with its cry evil spirit and scaring away the dead, forms a culmination in a special type of fairy tales, is constant in bylichkas. But the Rooster is not only associated with the sun, it is similar to it: it is the earthly image itself, a zoomorphic transformation of the heavenly fire - the sun. The Rooster is also associated with the symbolism of the resurrection from the dead, the eternal rebirth of life. In this context, it is possible to explain the image of the Rooster, sometimes placed on graves, on a cross, stone, etc., often in alternation with the image of the sun; cf. Also symbolic images the sun in the form of a Rooster in a circle or dawn, sometimes lightning in the form of a cock's comb (in this row is the custom of the ancient Romans to donate cock's combs to Lares). Some data allow us to correlate the sacrifice of the Rooster (in those ritual traditions where there is no prohibition on this, it is the Rooster that is mainly used for this purpose) with its sunny, fiery nature. The Old Russian Word of a certain Christ-lover” (final edition) condemns the pagan rites that existed after the introduction of Christianity, when “... koura rzhyut; and fire to pray to yourself, calling him a svarozhichm ”(other Russian kur,“ rooster ”). In many cases, there is a clear connection between the sacrifice of the Rooster and the making of fire, its kindling (cf., for example, Latvian and Russian data on the sacrifice of the Rooster to propitiate the goose barn, which is in charge of the fire under the barn).
Like the sun, the Rooster is also associated with the underworld. In ancient Greece, the Rooster, of course, also acted as a chthonic bird; it was dedicated to Asclepius as an image of the healing death-rebirth. At the same time, the opposition of roosters by color turns out to be functionally significant: if a light, red Rooster is associated with the sun, fire, then a black Rooster is associated with water, underworld(cf. the ritual burying of the Rooster in the ground) and symbolizes death, God's judgment, evil. So, Kozma of Prague in the "Czech Chronicle" (11-12 centuries) reports on the custom of going to sources and strangling black Roosters and black hens with the simultaneous invocation of the devil; back in the 19th century. the custom was kept to drown Roosters and chickens in reservoirs on St. Feith's day. The Russian ritual of sacrificing a black Rooster buried alive in the ground is also known, and the custom of keeping black Roosters and other animals (for example, cats) of black color at water mills, this color was considered especially kind to the spirit of water. The theme of the Rooster also arises in connection with the image of the fire bird (with the features of a dragon) Rarog (Rarashek), which is born from an egg laid black chicken. The participation of the Rooster in the realm of life, light, and in the realm of death, darkness makes this image capable of modeling the entire complex of life - death - a new birth. This is also facilitated by mythopoetic ideas about the Rooster as twice born, which, in particular, is often emphasized in the riddles about the Rooster: “Born twice, never baptized, he sang, but died - they didn’t bury,” etc. The idea of dual nature or, at least, the paradox of the Rooster is also reflected in other riddles (“Not a king, but in a crown”, “I have a crest - I don’t use it, I have spurs - I don’t ride”, etc.). Associated with life and death, the Rooster symbolizes fertility, primarily in its productive aspect. The rooster is one of the key symbols of sexual potency (cf. in this regard, the "rooster" designations of the genital member in relation to the "chicken" designations of the female genital organ, as well as the idea of the Rooster as a symbol of lust, existing in a number of traditions). Among the southern Slavs, Hungarians and other nations, the groom during the wedding ceremony often carries a live Rooster or his image. One of the manifestations life force The rooster is also its exceptional militancy, which is reflected in folklore, symbolism and emblematics (in particular, in heraldry). Arabic and Turkic sources invariably endow the ideal military leader with the courage of the Rooster. The correlation of the qualities of the Rooster and the person receives a certain support in the fairly common motif of the shapeshifting of the Rooster. (cf .. for example, Afanasiev Nos. 251-252). The Svans believed that the souls of men and women, after death, respectively, move into a Rooster and a chicken. For some Indian tribes of Central America, P. is on the gual, with which the life of a person is mysteriously connected; the death of a rooster entailed the death of a person under his care.
In the New Testament, the image of the Rooster has the symbolic meaning of a certain decisive edge (cf. Matt. 26:34:74-75; Mk 13:35). The rooster, in accordance with the gospel motif, becomes the emblem of St. Peter, a sign of repentance (in another interpretation, the Rooster is the messenger of the devil who tempted Peter). Sometimes the image of the Rooster is interpreted as a symbol of the true preacher of the Gospel. Among the Gnostics, the Rooster was considered the image of Phronesis, foresight, insight, wakefulness as emanations of the Logos. The rooster on the column was interpreted by the Gnostics as the Rooster of Abraxas. In Japan, it is believed that the Rooster prepares the heart of a pious believer for purification and reverence.
The idea of the Rooster as a symbol of vigilance and wakefulness of the spirit turns into Renaissance and Baroque emblems (a girl with a Rooster is a detail that emphasizes the military virtues of the city guard in Rembrandt's Night Watch). In rural and urban arts and crafts (wooden carving, embroidery, pottery, ritual cookies, etc., a more ancient interpretation of the image of the Rooster as a symbol of the SUN of the masculine principle, an apotropic sacrifice, in a grotesque reduction - erotic attraction is also developing. images of the Rooster who found a pearl grain found up to the 18th century.In French political heraldry (" Gallic Rooster”), the motif comes from the mythological ideas of the tribal society. IN fine arts 20th century The rooster serves as the embodiment of the national, "Gallic" beginning (tapestry by J. Lurs), aggressive virility (series "Woman and the Rooster" by B. Buffet), "apocalyptic" tragedies of the modern" history of the Rooster in the works of N. Goncharova ("Mystical images of war" 1914 ), Yugoslav artist I. Generalic ("The Crucified Rooster").
The rooster, the crow of the daylight, loudly and joyfully singing its praise at the first glimpses of dawn, is naturally an emblem of the sun, light and spiritual rebirth after the scorching darkness of the night. In Europe, the rooster symbolizes such commendable qualities as vigilance, courage, courage and reliability, and in China, nobility and generosity are added to them. Ordinating only with these values, we would get a portrait of an ideal man, if it were not for the arrogance, arrogance, cockiness and lustfulness that are also inherent in our striated swarm. All these tails, however, only give the ero portrait more life. It is enough to look at them from a different angle of view so that shortcomings can easily turn into virtues: arrogance and arrogance ¬ into arrogance, cockiness ¬ into militancy, and lustfulness ¬ Into irresistible male sexuality and attractiveness.
In mythology, the rooster symbolizes a reliable vigilant guardian, a fearless fighter against the forces of evil and darkness.
The solar warrior is armed literally from nor to the head, because on the norax he has sharp spurs, on the head there is a red combat helmet with a rib, and instead of a sword there is a smashing beak. Acting at the forefront of the luminous host, as if encouraging himself, he flaps his wings on the sides and utters a loud battle cry, upon hearing which the evil spirits, without even accepting the battle, turn into a panicked frenzy. frightened ghosts hasten to scatter in the wind, grubby devils dive into a still pool in a crowd, and vampires and ghouls fussily pack into robes.
A vigilant and brave warrior, endowed with a rare gift of foresight, being lifted to the roof and planted on a spoke or spire, turns into an ideal watchman. The Golden Cockerel-Fluer from Pushkin's fairy tale regularly showed Tsar Dodon that dangerous direction from which one should expect "... Either gaining strength of war, or another unexpected misfortune." A rooster with a golden crest from Scandinavian myths reliably guarded Bivrest, a rainbow bridge that connected the earth with the devils of hogs.
Ares, the Greek warrior of war, coming to a secret meeting with the enchantress Aphrodite, put on guard his servant of Alectrion, so that he would wake up the lovers before morning. Once Alektryon overslept, and the enraged Ares turned ero into a rooster, rightly believing that in this guise a negligent servant would perform his duties much better. In addition to Ares, the solar bird faithfully served Apollo, Athena, Apis, repMecy, Asclepius and other ancient forests.
In Chinese mythology, a three-legged rooster with golden feathers, sitting on a high Fusang world tree in the Tanry valley, is considered a symbol of the yang ¬ masculine principle in the universe. The miracle rooster cries three times to the whole Celestial Empire: the first time when the sun takes a morning bath in the waters of the ocean; the second time when the luminary reaches the zenith, and the third time at sunset. The golden rooster on the peach tree from the Taodushan ropa is the first to respond to the ero cry, and then all the other roosters of the earth pick up their loud song. IN Indian myths The “rooster king” acts as an analogue of the golden rooster, the ancestor, who controls the chorus of earthly roosters from the top of the magical jambu tree growing on the middle mainland of Jambudvipa.
Not all mythical roosters are so good. Only the sacred white and golden solar birds are absolutely flawless, but the motley one has a dubious reputation. The red rooster, as a symbol of fire, is rather dangerous. “Let the rooster go” means setting fire, and such deeds are hardly done with good intentions. There is nothing to say about the black rooster - the gloomy coloring itself reveals in him a servant of Satan. Black roosters are kept in the household only by witches and sorcerers, and the Georgian evil spirits Kudiani ride on them and do dirty deeds. Even black-skinned nerps are afraid of black-finned kochets, fearing dark sorcery on their part.
The second group of the unreliable includes the so-called "krivtsy" - birds that have gone astray from the true path. As if having gone crazy, they begin to bark at the top of their lungs at the most inopportune
for Toro, the time is in broad daylight or after midnight, confusing both people and spirits. Such schizophrenic roosters are immediately put under the knife by superstitious owners, since the singing of a krivets, in their opinion, portends trouble or someone's death.
Birds that have reached the age of 7 and 9 are also dangerous. In that old age the roosters allegedly start laying eggs for no apparent reason from Toro. The eggs are not simple, and not at all golden, but simply crappy, fraught with the embryo of a demonic being. According to Belarusian beliefs, an egg laid by an old rooster is carried by sorcerers under the arm on the left side.
If the sorcerer at the same time manages not to crush the ero during half a generation, then a house snake will hatch from the egg. The Lithuanians believed that in this way it was possible to bring out and tame the fiery serpent Aitvaras, capable of bringing a lot of money to the owner: If you wish, you can also take food. Worse than Bcero, if a bug-leafed swamp toad acts as a brood hen, then a monstrous basilisk with a cock's head, a toad's body and a snake's tail will hatch from a cock's egg, killing all living things with the poison of its terrifying look.
In pagan religion, roosters were often used as sacrifices. When sacrificing, it was necessary to strictly observe the color regime. White birds were sacrificed to the good forests. Ancient rivers, wanting to be healed of the disease, dedicated the white rooster to Asclepius, and the Lithuanians slaughtered the rooster for the glory of Vayzhrantas, in order to ensure a large harvest of flax. ralaron, the Ossetian forest of the Wind, should have been bestowed only with a red rooster, and chthonic (underground) forests with a black one. Evil spirits were also not averse to indulging in chicken, so the Slavs, trying to appease them, strangled black roosters for water, bannik and other evil spirits. French witches went out at night to the crossroads with a black rooster under their arm to offer their gift to Lucifer himself.
The rite of sacrificing a rooster for the sake of obtaining a rich harvest was widely practiced in antiquity, and in the Middle Ages, and even in modern times. In Castile and Alicia, for example, on the days of the Maslenitsa carnival, the “rooster king” was hung on a rope and solemnly hacked to death with a saber, accompanying the execution with the recitation of comic verses. In Germany, Slovakia and Bolraria, the rooster, considered the embodiment of the spirit of bread, was decapitated with a sickle during the harvest festival. Streams of sacrificial blood of unfortunate birds were shed by both pagans and Christians, even despite the fact that in this religion the rooster symbolizes the sun, light and rebirth. Little Toro, in Christianity the rooster is associated with a preacher announcing the sunrise true faith, and the first morning prayer, which sounded in Catholic monasteries at dawn, was called "Gallicinium", i.e. "Rooster crow".
In the East, the attitude towards roosters is more consistent and humane. In Mithraism and Mazdaism, our roy, personifying the sun, was the main attribute of Sraosha, the son and messenger of the light Ahuramazda. ABOUT high status The fact that the scepters of the shahs and the wands of the priests (atravans) were often crowned with a precious firyrka of a rooster eloquently testifies to the solar bird in Iranian religion.
The rooster is also considered sacred in Shintoism. The temple bird enjoys absolute freedom here, while voluntarily fulfilling an honorable duty: like a Muslim muezzin, it calls the faithful to prayer with loud singing. earned the highest respect from the Japanese already ancient ancestor roosters, who managed to lure out of the dark grotto, hiding her bright face, the goddess of the sun Amaterasu, the lava of the Shinto pantheon and the progenitor of the Japanese emperors.
Taoists honor the rooster, but in Buddhism he got not the best best role. The emblem of the rooster, depicted inside the evil wheel of samsara, personifies earthly carnal desires, which do not allow a person to break out of the closed chain of rebirths that leads ero along the path of endless suffering.
Ancient iconography presents a whole gallery of images, one way or another connected with the rooster. Abraxas, the serpentine nostic lord of Heaven and time, is depicted with a cock's head on human body, and the Taoist "great single" bot Tayi, on the contrary, with a human head on a cock's torso. The Freerian Bohr of the young moon Men, in the guise of a child, rides on a rooster. The militancy of the Hindu bora of war Skanda is emphasized by the emblem of the rooster on the ero banner. The Lithuanian boveta looks the most original and even funny. Veiopathis is two-faced, like the Roman Janus, and winged, like the Greek Nike; ero's arms are spread apart, mouths are wide open, and a rooster sits on the head.
In Christian iconography, the rooster became the emblem of the renunciation and repentance of the Apostle Peter. All four evangelists unanimously told about the reason for such symbolism. As follows from their notes, Christ revealed to his faithful disciple that on the night after the Last Supper, Peter will have time to renounce Hero three times, "before the rooster crows." That's how it all happened. When Christ was captured and delivered to the high priest Caiaphas, the apostle not only denied his teacher three times, but also swore that he did not know ero. At dawn, when the rooster crowed, Peter remembered the prophecy of Jesus and burst into tears of repentance. Since then, the rooster has become an invariable attribute of ero and a constant reproach.
Despite the fact that the pious Herald of the Dawn belonged as an attribute to other saints, fallunus and Witt, in Christian alleric art, the rooster sometimes personified one of the seven mortals - Lust.
In Chinese aerology, the rooster is one of a dozen spirit symbols of the animal cycle of the chronology, collectively referred to as "Shier Zhi" "12 Earthly Branches". According to Eastern horoscopes, a person born in the genus of a rooster is brave, monadean, conservative and always cuts the truth. But he shouldn’t cut Koro, because these are roosters, and chicken will have to be abandoned - for Hero this is a taboo. You should not anger the spirit of the patron, thoughtlessly waiting for the Toro moment until the roasted rooster pecks. Painfully, and in the most inappropriate place.
In the emblematics of France, the rooster settled a long time ago. Even the ancient Romans nicknamed the distant ancestors of the French "ralami"<петухами») за их вспыльчивый и задиристый характер.
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веков rаллус бьт символом Франции, а в эпоху Великой французской буржуазной
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полета ¬ на императорскоrо орла.
Since then, the rating of this national emblem has dropped significantly. In the twentieth century, the allus was often depicted as a caricature, ridiculing the adventurism, arrogance, cockiness and exorbitant conceit of French politicians. But in our time, he found a more worthy application - the rooster allus suddenly found itself in sports, turning into the emblem of the National Olympic Committee of France.
In classical rhetoric, the rooster symbolizes militancy and courage. Courage, determination and readiness for battle are demonstrated by a cheerfully marching red rooster in the historical coat of arms of Wallonia, and the ero African counterpart from the modern coat of Kenya not only Marches like a soldier, but also quite unequivocally brandishes a hatchet.
In Russian city emblems, they are not a militant, but a peaceful “speaking” emblem (for example, in the emblem of the river Petushka).
In this article you will learn:
According to Feng Shui, the rooster plays several roles: it embodies the masculine principle, serves as an activator of success and wealth, and puts a barrier to negative energy. A correctly selected and placed image of a bird normalizes the life flows of Qi, so the owner of such a figurine will restore strength and attract success and money capital.
The rooster, the symbol of the Yang element, represents an active masculine energy and is endowed with many virtues. This ambitious sign will help you achieve a lot in the social and financial sphere, protect you from troubles and ill-wishers, protect you from betrayal and betrayal.
The meaning of the rooster in the teachings of Feng Shui
According to Chinese beliefs, the rooster is a bird of the sun and heavenly fire, a conductor of solar energy. The bird embodies 5 virtues: courage, reliability, protection of the weak, dignity in war and nobility in peacetime. In Chinese, the words "rooster" and "luck" sound the same.
Can help in various life endeavors rooster: feng shui meaning this symbol is multifaceted. The courage and strength of the feathered one will push you to conquer career heights and increase income, it will become a magnet for good luck and fame. The image of a bird will help to remain faithful to the second half. The protection of the sign will protect against physical harm (theft, fire) and moral damage (evil eye, slander, ill will).
The rooster will help to gain good luck, wealth, career growth; the embodiment of the masculine principle and active yang energy will put up a barrier to negativity from the outside, protective properties will be able to protect your home from intruders.
The figurine of a rooster is an artistically executed copy of a bird with the distinctive features of its species: a proud, confident look, chic plumage and tail, and a fleshy crest.
It is better to choose a figurine from natural materials. A correctly selected figurine will help to reveal the incarnation of a rooster, which will attract the necessary energy for the realization of goals.
A metal talisman will attract wealth. A metal souvenir will attract cash receipts, help develop leadership skills and entrepreneurship, and become a patron of business. The energy of money will increase in combination with other attributes of abundance: a rooster sitting on a handful of coins will additionally replenish the budget.
A figurine made of ceramics, porcelain or crystal enhances the protective properties of the symbols. This option will protect you from negative external influences: it will protect the house from people with bad intentions, it will ward off homeless people in the family and prevent treason, and at work it will protect you from competitors in business and the slander of colleagues.
The wooden symbol of the bird will create a positive atmosphere in the house, bring comfort, tranquility and peace. The owner of a wooden talisman will also feel a beneficial effect on the body and psyche. The rooster will help restore strength, cleanse yourself of negative energy, and find harmony.
Where to put a figurine of a rooster
The artistic image of a rooster can not only become an addition decor for your home, but also with the right arrangement, attract well-being, activate positive energy.
Feng Shui South is the Glory Zone. If the rooster located in the southern part of the room, the owner of the figurine can count on achieving fame and honor, acquiring a good reputation and public recognition, and increasing social status. It is better to choose a figurine of a bird in red: this will enhance the effect of the talisman in achieving ambitious goals.
The southeastern sector of housing is responsible for the achievement of wealth, the accumulation of capital. Placing a symbol in this part of the house will help realize desires related to money. To increase the possibilities of a winged patron in the financial sector, pick up a metal figurine.
The rooster is a strong amulet. The qualities of a defender will be most fully revealed if you place a figurine at the entrance to the house. The Feng Shui assistant located there will protect you from people with hostile intentions, fire, the evil eye and other adverse external influences.
Protective properties are also used to prevent third parties from interfering in personal life and business. The figurine on the desktop will protect from the envy of colleagues and the intrigues of competitors. A figurine standing at home in a closet or chest of drawers will prevent possible betrayal and preserve the devotion of the spouses. To enhance the protective properties bird figurine can be located on both sides of the cabinet door.
You should not put a figurine next to a phoenix or a dragon: the conflict of energies neutralizes the beneficial effects of these symbols.
Is the amulet suitable as a gift?
A feng shui figurine as a gift is not only a material offering, but also a wish of the corresponding qualities to the person being presented. Talisman in the form of a rooster symbolizes the accumulation of wealth, protection from ill-wishers, strong male energy. The choice of this figurine will allow you to figuratively express the wishes of money and prosperity.
The donated figurine of a bird has several meanings: it is an interior detail that will decorate the house, and an activator of positive energy that brings protection and wealth to the owner, and the material embodiment of good wishes.
Images of a rooster and a chicken are most often found in tambour, line embroidery, as well as in gold embroidery products of the Russian North: on the ends of towels, shirt hems, mittens, kokoshniks, etc. It is believed that the word “kokoshnik” itself comes from the Old Slavonic “kokosh” - a rooster or a hen. It is possible that here we are dealing with an echo of ancient totemic thinking...
In ancient times, any decorations on the human body - from tattoos among the southern peoples to ornamental embroideries on fabrics among the northern ones - served as magical amulets from evil spirits. This should also include all the ancient "jewellery" - pendants, bracelets, brooches, rings, earrings, rings, necklaces, etc. The aesthetic functions of these items, apparently, were secondary. It is no coincidence that women's jewelry predominates among the numerous archaeological finds: a man, as a stronger and more enduring creature, needed much less such amulets.
Each sign, each dot and dash in the ancient ornament carried a certain semantic load, being a kind of secret writing of our distant ancestors, which thousands of scientists far from the people have been trying in vain to decipher for a century and a half. Meanwhile, ethnographers testify that as early as the second half of the 19th century, old women lived in some Russian villages who could “read” from embroidered ornaments and during wedding ceremonies explained to the bride and groom the meaning of the patterns on their wedding clothes. One such old witch could outdo a dozen modern scientists with all their comparative tables, system analyzes and formulas.
Getting acquainted with the results of many years of painstaking work of venerable researchers of folk art, one involuntarily comes to the conclusion that their main intellectual efforts were not directed at all at studying folk art as such, but primarily at searching for foreign art in it (Byzantine, Arabic, Indian, Scandinavian, German, etc.) influences.
The famous three-volume book by A. N. Afanasyev, for which Sergei Yesenin gave five pounds of flour in the hungry 20s, is fraught with much more clues, discoveries and revelations than tens of thousands of voluminous volumes written by modern scholars.
The beginning of the study of the ornament of Russian folk embroidery was laid by V.V. Stasov, who found “Finnish” and “Iranian” influences in the original work of Russian embroiderers. The same venerable scientist throughout his conscious life diligently proved (fortunately - unsuccessfully) the Turkic-Mongolian origin of Russian epics and fairy tales. The representative of the mythological school F. I. Buslaev also saw in Russian embroidery a whole bunch of alien influences: “Asian”, “Late Roman”, “Byzantine” and “Germanic”. The next researcher, V. A. Gorodtsov, managed to find Daco-Sarmatian elements in the ornament of northern embroidery. E. N. Kletneva elevated Russian patterns on fabric to the “great culture of the East”. G. Gromov, L. V. Deopi and V. I. Plyushcheev tried to reveal the semantics of Russian embroideries by mechanical counting of heads, wings and tails, but nothing worthwhile came of this venture. The rest either adhered to the concept of their predecessors, or did not touch on this topic at all. Academician B. A. Rybakov, whose works on Slavic and Russian paganism were an invaluable contribution to the study of the deep layers of the great Russian culture, was the only researcher who approached the examination of the images of northern embroidery impartially.
As already noted, Russian folk embroidery ornament
originally played the role of a talisman: they covered all the holes and openings in a person’s clothes through which evil spirits could penetrate - a collar, an incision on the chest, a hem, sleeves, shoulders, in a word - places where access to the body was opened.
Among the ornamental motifs of Northern Russian embroidery, zoomorphic, plant, everyday, geometric and cult motifs should be singled out. Zoomorphic motifs are represented by stylized images of birds (swan, duck, rooster, chicken, peacock, eagle) and animals (horse, deer, elk, lion, leopard, etc.). Images of a rooster and a chicken are most often found in tambour, line embroidery, as well as in gold embroidery products of the Russian North: on the ends of towels, shirt hems, mittens, kokoshniks, etc. It is believed that the word “kokoshnik” itself comes from the Old Slavonic “kokosh” - a rooster or a hen. It is possible that here we are dealing with an echo of ancient totemic thinking. The cock in Rus' was revered as a prophetic bird, driving away the darkness of the night and greeting the sunrise. By the cry of a rooster, the peasants determined the time: "the first roosters" - midnight, "second" - before dawn, "third" - dawn (dawn). Hence the expression: “up to the third roosters”, “get up with the roosters”, “oversleep the roosters”. The cock's cry drove away evil spirits, so it was often compared with the ringing of bells for matins. In Russian villages, they tried not to keep black roosters, because it was believed that spouses would often quarrel at the same time.
The expression "letting a red rooster" meant to set fire to the house. When moving to a new dwelling, the peasant let a rooster with a chicken into the hut and waited for the first one to sing "for housewarming". The blood of the sacrificial rooster was considered the best way to mitigate the wrath of the brownie. Many Russian folk signs and beliefs were associated with the cry of a rooster: “If a rooster sings earlier than usual, then in summer it portends bad weather, and in winter a thaw”, “A rooster sings in the afternoon under the windows - to the guests”, “If the rooster sang in the evening at an unusual hour, you need to run to the perch and feel his feet: warm feet are for guests, and cold feet are for the dead”, “Roosters sing at the wrong time - there will be new decrees”, etc.
New Year's divination with a rooster is also widely known. Having tied the rooster and the hen with their tails, they put them under a sieve and watched who would pull whom: if the rooster is the hen, the husband will be in charge of the house, if vice versa, the wife. For the same purpose, they released a rooster with a hen in the middle of the room and observed: if the rooster proudly walks and pinches the hen, then the husband will be angry, and if the hen becomes brave, the wife will rule the house. It was believed that a good rooster should be lively and pugnacious: for this, on Good Thursday, he was fed with pepper on the stove damper and then thrown out of the window into the courtyard. The expression "cock" meant to get into a fight, get excited, be brave, and "cock" in the old days was called a perky, pugnacious, bully.
In the Tarnogsky district, patients “out of fright” were doused with water, in which a rooster had previously been bathed. In order for the baby to cut his teeth painlessly, they pierced the comb of a black rooster and smeared the gums with the blood that came out from there. There is no doubt that the rooster was once one of the totems of the ancient Slavs. The ban on the killing of totem animals was sacredly observed for many centuries. In the Russian North, it was considered a mortal sin to kill a swan - a sacred bird of the ancient Russians. A. N. Afanasiev also reports that in the Vologda province "they consider it a sin to cut and eat roosters." It is no coincidence that one of the most famous characters in Russian folk tales was the Cockerel - the Golden Scallop.
The day of Kozma and Demyan (November 1/14) was called by the peasants “the chicken holiday” or “the chicken name day”: relatives and friends gave each other chickens, which were then held in high esteem, they could not be killed, and the eggs they laid were considered healing. Like a rooster, a chicken often appeared in Russian folk signs: “A chicken stands on one leg - to a cold”, “Chickens fight - to guests”, “Chickens scream at a perch - to a domestic quarrel”, “Chickens twirl their tails - to a snowstorm” , “Chickens cackle at night - to be a quarrel, war or recruitment”, “The chicken will crow like a rooster - to the dead”, etc.
In addition to Kozma and Demyan, there were several more “chicken holidays” in the Russian folk calendar: Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women (the third after Easter), “Vyunish” (Fomino) Sunday (the first after Easter), the day of Boris and Gleb (May 2/16), as well as the day of Sergius of Radonezh - the "guardian of chickens" (September 25 / October 8). Zelenin also describes the ancient Russian rite of the “three chickens” or “chicken brothers”, performed “by promise” during difficult births, illnesses, etc.
Quite often, chicken was also used in folk medicine: patients with jaundice, fever, crixia or "night blindness" were doused with water under a chicken perch. In the Cherepovets district, another way was practiced to get rid of "night blindness": the patient had to climb onto the "chicken seat" and crow like a rooster. Against fever, a dead chicken was placed under the pillow of the patient; against consumption they used the jelly of a killed chicken, and against drunken violence they drank chicken droppings. To prevent pregnancy, they took a black chicken and walked around the aspen stake with it at midnight.
In Russian mythology, the chicken was considered a "thing", because before the misfortune, she began to sing like a rooster. Breaking the sternum (“arch”) of a chicken in the well-known Russian custom of “remembrance” served as a symbol of an agreement between two lovers. In Russian proverbs and sayings, a chicken is mentioned much more often than a rooster: “And a chicken would not be happy for a feast, but they drag it by a crest”, “Do not sing a rooster to a chicken, do not own a peasant woman”, “Eggs do not teach a chicken”, “On your street and the chicken is brave”, “He gets drunk, he fights with kings, but sleeps, he’s afraid of the chicken”, “Tell the chicken, and she and the whole street”, “He doesn’t peck money and chickens”, etc.
Popular expressions are also known: “Chickens laugh”, “Like a wet chicken”, “Blind chicken”, “Like chickens have fermented”, etc. On the roofs of Vologda huts, “hens” are often found - wooden patterned hooks to support the gutter. L.K. Zelenin rightly believes that this is a memory of animal skulls that were once sacrificed ...
