Editing Peafowl (section)

=== Middle East ===
==== Yazidism ====
Tawûsî Melek ({{lit|Peacock Angel}})<ref name=":0">{{cite news |title=Sembolîzma teyran di Êzîdîtiyê de (1) |language=ku |url=http://www.bued.boun.edu.tr/turik.asp?id=47 |access-date=27 December 2019 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224193133/http://www.bued.boun.edu.tr/turik.asp?id=47 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |author=Omarkhali, Khanna |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1329211153 |title=The Yezidi Religious Textual Tradition : From Oral to Written Categories, Transmission, Scripturalisation and Canonisation of the Yezidi Oral Religious Texts |date=2017 |publisher=Harrassowitz |isbn=978-3-447-10856-0 |oclc=1329211153}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Aysif |first=Rezan Shivan |url=http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?univerlag-isbn-978-3-86395-514-4 |title=The Role of Nature in Yezidism: Poetic Texts and Living Tradition |date=2021 |publisher=Göttingen University Press |isbn=978-3-86395-514-4 |location=Göttingen |doi=10.17875/gup2021-1855|s2cid=246596953 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=13 April 2021 |title=مەھدى حەسەن:جەژنا سەر سالێ‌ دمیتۆلۆژیا ئێزدیان دا |url=https://www.lalishduhok.com/ckb/%da%af%db%86%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%b1/post/332436/,%20https://www.lalishduhok.com/ckb/گۆتار/post/332436/ |access-date=18 November 2022}}</ref> one of the central figures of the [[Yazidism|Yazidi religion]], is symbolized with a peacock.<ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2003">{{cite journal |author1-link=Garnik Asatrian |date=January 2003 |editor-last=Asatrian |editor-first=Garnik S. |title=Malak-Tāwūs: The Peacock Angel of the Yezidis |journal=[[Iran and the Caucasus]] |location=[[Leiden]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] in collaboration with the Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies ([[Yerevan]]) |volume=7 |issue=1–2 |pages=1–36 |doi=10.1163/157338403X00015 |issn=1609-8498 |eissn=1573-384X |jstor=4030968 |lccn=2001227055 |oclc=233145721 |author1-last=Asatrian |author1-first=Garnik S. |author2-last=Arakelova |author2-first=Victoria}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> In Yazidi [[Creation myth|creation stories]], before the creation of this world, God created seven [[Yazidism#Holy figures|Divine Beings]], of whom Tawûsî Melek was appointed as the leader. God assigned all of the world's affairs to these seven Divine Beings, also often referred to as the Seven [[Angel]]s or heft sirr ("the Seven Mysteries").<ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2003" /><ref name="Allison 2017">{{cite encyclopedia |title=The Yazidis |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=[[Oxford]] |url=https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-254 |access-date=15 May 2021 |date=25 January 2017 |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.254 |isbn=9780199340378 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190311065225/https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-254 |archive-date=11 March 2019 |author-last=Allison |author-first=Christine |doi-access=free |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2014">{{cite book |author1-last=Asatrian |author1-first=Garnik S. |title=The Religion of the Peacock Angel: The Yezidis and Their Spirit World |author2-last=Arakelova |author2-first=Victoria |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-84465-761-2 |series=Gnostica |location=[[Abingdon, Oxfordshire]] |pages=1–28 |chapter=Part I: The One God - Malak-Tāwūs: The Leader of the Triad |doi=10.4324/9781315728896 |oclc=931029996 |author1-link=Garnik Asatrian |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1RsBAAAQBAJ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |author=Omarkhali, Khanna |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1007841078 |title=The Yezidi religious textual tradition : from oral to written categories, transmission, scripturalisation and canonisation of the Yezidi oral religious texts |year=2017 |isbn=978-3-447-10856-0 |pages=26 |publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag |oclc=1007841078}}</ref>

In Yazidism, the peacock is believed to represent the diversity of the world,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Pirbari |first1=Dimitri |url=https://www.academia.edu/2464521 |title=Holy Lalish, 2008 (Ezidian temple Lalish in Iraqi Kurdistan). |last2=Grigoriev |first2=Stanislav |pages=183 |access-date=8 June 2023 |archive-date=9 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109123141/https://www.academia.edu/2464521 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the colourfulness of the peacock's feathers is considered to represent of all the colours of nature. The feathers of the peacock also symbolize sun rays, from which come light, luminosity and brightness. The peacock opening the feathers of its tail in a circular shape symbolizes the sunrise.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Aysif |first=Rezan Shivan |url=https://www.univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-514-4 |title=The Role of Nature in Yezidism |date=2021 |isbn=978-3-86395-514-4 |pages=61–67, 207–208, 264–265 |doi=10.17875/gup2021-1855 |s2cid=246596953 |access-date=8 June 2023 |archive-date=29 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529093320/https://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-514-4 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Consequently, due to its holiness, Yazidis are not allowed to hunt and eat the peacock, ill-treat it or utter bad words about it. Images of the peacock are also found drawn around the sanctuary of [[Lalish]] and on other Yazidi shrines and holy sites, homes, as well as religious, social, cultural and academic centres.<ref name=":3" />

==== Mandaeism ====
In ''[[The Baptism of Hibil Ziwa]]'', the Mandaean [[uthra]] and emanation [[Yushamin]] is described as a peacock.<ref>{{cite book|last=Drower|first=Ethel S.|author-link=E. S. Drower|title=The Haran Gawaita and The Baptism of Hibil-Ziwa: The Mandaic text reproduced together with translation, notes and commentary |location=[[Vatican City]] |publisher=[[Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana]] |year=1953 |page=52}}</ref>