Symbols - What does heaven look like
Cock

The cock takes on the symbolism of all Birds, but its importance is so great it is an almost universal symbol, being found from China and Japan to Europe. The cock is the bird that ‘crows’ at Dawn. And Dawn is related to the Spiritual path. See also the Spiritual path and the Hours. In this context, it is not the start of life’s journey, but the end after one has been through the spiritual path and one is about to emerge as an enlightened being. The cock ‘crows’ because it has become enlightened. It throws its head back and gasps out a cry, much as people do when they have an ecstatic experience – their arms are raised and their head flies back and they cry out.
The comb on the cock’s head is thus an extra symbol of the crown chakra and the opening of it – a red blaze of energy – the fire of flame as the Higher spirit is awakened.
Dr Masaaki Hatsumi - The Way of the Ninja – Secret techniques.
In Chuang Tzu’s Taoist parable of the wooden fighting cock, a fighting cock was trained so well that it appeared totally impassive – wooden – thus inspiring terror in all its rivals.
It is also symbolic of the penis, and of course this is where we get the slang word ‘cock’ from. It is related to the use of the penis in the technique of Stimulation of trigger points to achieve a kundalini experience.
Observations
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- Chagall - Bonjour Paris
- Chagall - Cheval rouge
- Chagall - the rooster
- Chagall - the rooster in love
- Chuang Tzu - The Fighting Cock
- Cock a doodle
- Cocteau, Jean - Le Coq et l’Arlequin - Wisdom
- Gershom Scholem – On the Kabbalah and its symbolism - Tikkun Hatsoth
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Touchingly touching things
- Hennell, Thomas - A landscape of grass meadows
- Hokusai - Cocks
- Holderlin, Johann - From in lovely blue
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell - A Parody on “A Psalm of Life”
- Ikkyu - Night talk in a Dream chamber
- Indus valley - Mohenjo-Daro - 01 Introduction
- Klimt - Garden with Roosters
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - The Great Noontide
- Odetta - Don't Think Twice It's All Right
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - Dreaming when Dawn's left hand was in the sky
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - The flower that once has blown for ever dies
- One two buckle my shoe
- Poetic Edda - Völuspá [extract]
- Poetic Edda - Völuspá [extract]
- Ride a cock horse
- Rimbaud, Arthur - O seasons, O chateaux, Who possesses a perfect soul
- Rimbaud, Arthur - There; the little dead girl, behind the rosebushes
- Rolling Stones - Little Red Rooster
- Samuel - The Water Drawing Ceremony
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 19 - The Lovers (The Dustman)
- The Knights Templar - Royston Cave
- The legend of Kartikeya
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 03
- This is the house that Jack built
- Typhoid
- Who Killed Cock Robin