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| | Here Comes the Rooster: A Cocky Guide for the Graphic Designer: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design: Writing: AIGA |
 | | In 1474, a rooster in Basel, Switzerland, was tried, convicted and burned at the stake for the heretical and satanic crime of laying an egg, a feat we know today to be biologically possible. |
 | | Barnyard fowls were easy to keep, dependable and fertile, not to mention that the symbol of the rooster as bird of the sun dates back to the ancient Babylonians, whose priests kept cocks perched on their altars. |
 | | The centuries have piled on the connotations of the rooster symbol, from Christ to Crockpot, from priests to Provence, but I believe that at bottom the reason for honoring the rooster in the home is the triad of food, fertility, and the crow at the dawn of a new day. |
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