> The bird made it possible to make offerings without straining a family’s budget. In his 2010 paper in American Antiquity, Dueppen writes “chickens provided a means to maintain the rich spiritual life within a consciously reinvented egalitarian society without creating wealth differentials.” In other words, you didn’t need to be a rich cattle baron to maintain your connection with the gods.
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