Asni’s Art Blog: Cosmic Peacock

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Creation, by Skye diLucio – chameleonskyes on DeviantArt.

Well, it looks like I have now whole-heartedly embarked on poultry keeping. Last Saturday, I picked up three more chickens from the poultry and pigeon fair in Masterton: another silkie (just because they are so cute and fluffy, and this one is blue), whom I have called Feng – and two silver campines, Buten and Binnen. They are an old-fashioned breed which is now rare and threatened, from the nook of the world where I spent much of my rock’n roll youth. To me, they look exactly like chickens. I mean, like chickens ought to look like.

Then Piwo, my perky black Polish pullet, started to crow – possibly brought on by the recent influx of new females – so I took the wee transgender chicken back to the breeder, and swopped him over for a proper pullet, a blue this time. I’ve dubbed her Lody. Now I have a designer flock of fancy chickens all in bright whites and subtle silver and blue-grey.

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Chickens are looking at you!

Getting into the swing of things, I almost got a peahen as well – I’d been planning to look into acquiring a pair of peafowl sometime next year, but then I saw some advertised locally, and put in my bid. But the owners somehow decided to sell the bird to someone else instead, which did not make me very happy! I already had a name for that bird, too.

So, no peafowl just yet – but that doesn’t need to keep me from dedicating this blog post to this cosmic bird. Turns out that there is a whole religion involving the worship of a cosmic peacock: Melek Taus, the “peacock angel” of the Yezidis, a religious community of Kurdish people in Iraq. You’d never know where poultry keeping could lead you. One lives and learns!

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Peacock Mandala – Melek Taus, by Cyrenization on DeviantArt.
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Melek Taus, by HDora on DeviantArt.
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Melek Taus, by lubu on DeviantArt.
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Cosmic Egg, by Jake Rueth – cubecrazy2 on DeviantArt.
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melek taus, by yuchan86 on DeviantArt.
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Melek Ta’us, by Katarsium on DeviantArt.
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Melek Taus, line art by Chrisxdd on DeviantArt :: color by neocargalpha on DeviantArt.
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Grace, aka Melek Taus, by Mirroga on DeviantArt.
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Yezidiler 2, by Ersin Ileri – pan-ersin on DeviantArt.
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Yezidiler 6, by Ersin Ileri – pan-ersin on DeviantArt.
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Malak Taus at Ashura, by robert syrett – cryptoclassic on DeviantArt.
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Hiranyagarbha, by wyteruse on DeviantArt.
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Colouring contest: Innairyn, by Greta Largo – lady-largo on DeviantArt.
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Abacist, by Lauren Natvig – TheArtOfSilentShout on DeviantArt.
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Krishna’s Dream, by Aditi Desai – d33ds on DeviantArt.
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Cosmic Peacock, by Daryl Feril – darylferil on DeviantArt.
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Peacock fish and a UFO, by Echorus on DeviantArt.
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Cosmic Peacock, by djerebus on DeviantArt.

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