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  2. King Iguana - Wikipedia

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    The areca nut and the rooster's egg then sink a bit into the water, when out of the areca nut a tree sprouts and a rooster hatches out of the egg, which starts to crow. As some ships pass them by, the rooster asks the ships if King Iguana is coming soon; the captains of the first two ships say he is coming after them.

  3. Gullinkambi - Wikipedia

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    In Norse mythology, Gullinkambi (Old Norse "golden comb" [1]) is a rooster who lives in Valhalla. In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, Gullinkambi is one of the three roosters whose crowing is foretold to signify the beginning of the events of Ragnarök. The other two roosters are Fjalar in the wood Gálgviðr, and an unnamed soot-red rooster in Hel:

  4. Bahuchara Mata - Wikipedia

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    Bahuchara Mata (Hindi: बहुचरा माता, romanized: Bahucharā Mātā; Gujarati: બહુચર માતા, romanized: Bahuchara Mātā) is a Hindu goddess of chastity and fertility in her maiden aspect, of the incarnation of the Hinglaj. The goddess grants favours, especially to male children, and cures diseases.

  5. Cultural references to chickens - Wikipedia

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    The flag of Wallonia features a red rooster Rooster on the coat of arms of Tomilino (Moscow Oblast, Russia) Today, the Gallic rooster is an emblem of France. The rooster is also an emblem of Wallonia and the Turkish city of Denizli. Among Roman deities, Priapus was sometimes represented as a cock, with its beak as a phallus and its wattles as ...

  6. List of legendary creatures in Hindu mythology - Wikipedia

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    Bhusunda or Kakabhushundi is a very old sage, in the form of a crow. In the Story of Bhusunda, a chapter of the Yoga Vasistha, Bhusunda recalls a succession of epochs in the earth's history, as described in Hindu cosmology. He survived several destructions, living on a wish-fulfilling tree on Mount Meru.

  7. Glossary of bird terms - Wikipedia

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    A small, freely-moving projection on the anterior edge of the wing of modern birds (and a few non-avian dinosaurs)—a bird's "thumb"—the word is Latin and means 'winglet'; it is the diminutive of ala, meaning 'wing'. Alula typically bear three to five small flight feathers, with the exact number depending on the species.

  8. List of spiritual entities in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Darda'il (The Journeyers), who travel the earth searching out assemblies where people remember God's name. [13] (Angel) al-Dik, an angel in the shape of a rooster. He is responsible for the crowing of cockerels and announcing time. [14] (Angel) Dhaqwan, an ifrit who tempted Solomon into carrying the throne of Bilqis. [15] (Demon)

  9. Rooster of Barcelos - Wikipedia

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    There are two pilgrims, father and son. The son is accused, and the father pleads his innocence by calling on the rooster to crow. [3] The rooster crows as soon as the accused man declares it will, so the man is never taken to the gallows. The accused is not from Galicia.