It signifies a hero in the battlefield or an able man in the political arena. The rooster denotes great courage, and as the herald of the dawn, it is often used as an emblem of watchfulness. The symbol of vigilance, strength, pride and bossiness, the cock or rooster as he is also known, is an emblem of St. The lion is a common charge, and is addressed separately. Big cats including the tiger, leopard, and panther also appear in arms.
However, the cat does appear in British, Scottish, and Irish arms specifically, those of Keates and Scott-Gatty. During this time, the cat became associated with the devil and witchcraft and was consequently avoided as a canting charge, as in the case of the large German family of Katzenellenbogen. With the dawn of the Christian era, through the European Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, the church was keen to erase all traces of paganism, particularly pagan gods, goddesses, and sacred animals. Freya rides a chariot pulled by two large cats given to her by the god Thor. The cat is also sacred to Freya, the Old Norse goddess of fertility, beauty, love, and war. Ancient Egyptians valued cats for their ability to kill mice and other vermin, thereby protecting crops and preventing the spread of disease. Playful and affectionate yet a fierce predator at heart, Bast personifies the cat's gentle and mean qualities. The cat is sacred to the ancient Egyptian protector goddess Bast, or Bastet, who is often represented as a woman with the head of a domesticated cat.
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