The fighting cocks

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The cockfighting has been alive and present in the entire history of mankind after God, if someone we must thank the galleros is the prophet Noah, who gave him room in its wonderful boat ride to the rooster and hen of fighting between their thousands of living beings that except the "deluge" exterminator, he, his wife, sons and daughters-in-law.

By its arrogance and energy, I imagine that the gallo of battle had to be one of the first to land on 17 of the seventh month, then the "boat" of the prophet will be stranded on Mount Ararat in Armenia. It is a proven fact that the origin of the gallo of combat came in the place known as Medina, rough country, cold and mountainous Asia Minor near Babylon.

The word GALLO, comes from the Latin Gallus. Thousands of years before our era, were already being performed breeding, reproduction and distraction of the fighting cocks. However, in times past had origins in two main roots are the Gallus gallus BANKIVA and SONERATI both of Asia Minor, called the latter Katukoli in India.

If we could rewind the time and print images, we were in the foreground to Adam and Eve noting passionately to their cocks as beloved hobby, especially if we think that in those first years of life, there was no cable television, radio, cinema, automobiles, motorcycles, airplanes, electronic games, much less Internet.

In the modern era is yet known, some wild races, but it is estimated as superior and excellent among the best, the gallo Asil which is still on the island of Java, in Asia.

The cockfighting has been alive and present in the entire history of humanity, either a bird that frightens the evils, such as in Iran, sacred bird in the code of the Mamu India, a model and inspiration for artists and art collection in the museum of Turin, Genoa, Valencia, New York, Madrid, Louvre or in Greece in the ultimate of Minerva, the hand of the gods Mars or Mercury, in millions of coins, shields, as well as this present in Christianity between San Pedro and Jesus Christ.

Were Greek generals as Temistocles, who before the battle of "Salamina", witnessing a combat cockfighting in a square of Athens, in his address to the people and alluding to the value of its citizens, asked if they were willing to defend the freedom of the homeland, as well as dying birds for the pleasure of defeat.

Were these so-called logical general Temistocles of dying or beat those times, when there was no atomic bomb, missiles, black birds, biological weapons, lasers, red buttons and telephone interference. The struggle was intelligence, skill and power such as the "feathered gladiators".

The Greeks not only expanded the passion for the cocks in all their domains, but also drove them to their young citizens to see at least a cockfighting a year, to learn from the birds of his moral combat.

It was as well as came the cockfighting to France, Rome, England and Spain. When the conquistadors landed in America, many of them brought their cocks fighting under the arm. It is said that the conquistador Hernán Cortés when he arrived in Mexico, among the first things he did was to build his hen house to raise fighting cocks. Not in vain Mexico is the birthplace of the sport of cockfighting.

They did the same the heads of the viceroyalties of Peru, where Doña Inés Suarez passionate of the birds was devoted to raise fighting cocks according to historical writing of the colony. Dona Ines, subsequently as lifetime companion of Don Pedro de Valdivia, founder of Santiago de Chile, continued to promote the cock fights, where they play until today.

The "Biography of Cleopatra" of Oscar von Wertheimer, in one of their parties tells us that one of the hobbies in Alexandria in the "bella" and the roman Marco Antonio, were cockfighting and quail. In those years, the lag between life love, war and cockfighting.

In Nicaragua it happened the same thing from the colony and that is why our ancestors were passionate about and also galleros rulers as: José Santos Zelaya, Tom Martinez, Fernando Guzmán, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro and José María Moncada Tapia.

But not only these presidents Nicaraguans you've been galleros, Americans were also rulers as: George Washington, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, who is said to until he liked act as judge in the sand.

Who was considered a great breeder and gallero was without a doubt the president Andrew Jackson, who remained gallero during your stay in the White House. In all America is considered the Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana and the American Nick Arrington, as the most famous sportsmen galleros of all times.

The roosters arrived in Latin America have spanish origin and as root the Gallus BANKIVA, los Gallos americans have English or Irish origins and all the north american races have received the name of their breeders who have improved in accordance with their requirements of struggle or cutting.

As we enter the third millennium, the cock fights are as passionate as when Adam and Eve, Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, Dona Ines and Pedro de Valdivia; so vivid and distant as in the forgotten MACONDO Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez.

Source: Don Mr rooster fight