"The Celestial Cock is a bird with golden feathers that crows three times each day.... The first cock-crow shakes the skies and wakens all humanity…. The Celestial Cock is an ancestor of Yang, the masculine principle of the universe. It has three legs and builds its nest in the Fu-sang tree, whose height is measured in hundreds of miles and which grows in the region of the dawn.... All the cocks of the earth descend from the Celestial Cock, which is also known as the Bird of Dawn.â€
-Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings
