"So saying, the Angel Peacock, Melek Taus as we call him, spread his wings and flew away over the inaccessible mountain-tops. That is why we Yezidi, the descendants of that compassionate shepherd, sing hymns to appease and glorify the Spirit of Evil to this very day. Our hymns are scorned by the rest of the world. Both Christians and Muslims alike hate and persecute us. They call us 'Muraddun'-- Infidels and Devil-Worshippers. Our priests, Qawasls, travel secretly and do not wear priestly robes.They carry with them, hidden away from Muslim and Christian eyes, the effigy of a peacock.When we pray, we do not turn towards Mecca like the Muslims but towards the Polar Star, the immovable source of light in darkness, the point of the axis round which the whole universe resolves."
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Oh my! I used to raise peacocks, and I do believe they could be construed as evil. They certainly never did anything I told them to do. They are independent to foolishness. A lot like Obama. There purpose was to walk around my place and look pretty. Instead, they hid in the barn all day and only came out at dusk. Then, half the time they couldn’t find their way back to the barn at dark. Eventually, they all were killed by foxes, or each other.
Although pretty, peacocks have very small heads. I construe this to mean that they also have very small brains. They used to break their own eggs.