Dragonfruit ~ Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel

[Dankquanicus]

@Veil

The Yazidic folk similarly call Melek Taus the first emanation of God, and among other epithets, the ruler of the world, of man, of sky and sea and the firmament and the earth, and so on; and while my UPG is that he is distinctly a solar deity, would that aspect (as a demiurge) make him Saturnian?

Very Interesting. Perhaps then Al-Biruni and Lilly’s attribution of the Peacock to Jupiter is very appropriate then! If he is the Demiurge.
Only trouble is that he does not seem to act very much like a God, but this can be the visionary aspect (That is, it seems no vision of the Gods is perfectly accurate, and none of the Spirits either, unless it is truly divinely inspired). Or perhaps it’s just my own opinion! But the anthromorphism of the Gods does not seem very logical to me either.

With that, I am referring to what is discussed in this thread:

Sitra Achra Gloria

I want to comment on this, although I do believe some spirits experience such a range of emotions, Socrates rejected the anthromorphism of the Gods. So following the philosophy of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonist Philosophers, the Greeks and Romans saw the Gods as always being in a state of divine bliss. Aristotle says we have a conflicting nature in us, which is from the desire for the pleasure but the capacity to feel and fear pain. The Gods do not have a conflicting nature b…

And on the Solar aspect, Zeus is also called Zeus-Helios. The Sun is the Celestial image of the Demiurge, the divine King of the Planets!

@Veil

I have also heard the name or term Saturnia (presumably ‘of Saturn’) attributed to Hera/Juno in Greek/Roman mythology respectively, which intrigued me… Since my current task/next extremely fun post is going to be me trying to draw parallels or at least plausible links between pavolatry in the east migrating via the Persian Empire to Greek and therefore Roman culture.

I could comment on this but I’m afraid I’m not currently knowledgable enough for it to be reliable. Perhaps someday!

@Veil

I ask all this because the last contact I had with Melek Taus was simply him giving me the name “Mithras”. Nothing else. I don’t know if he meant “go work with Mithras” or it was intended as something deeper, but I’ve been rabbit-hole diving and gathering information and have enough “academic” information (in quotes because some sources are a bit dubious/questionable) to trace pavolatry through to the Roman Empire via the Persian Empire from India, which has practised pavolatry (peacock worship) for a while… Although if you ask the Yazidic folk, they state their religion is far older than Greek/Roman mythos, but then, what religion doesn’t think theirs is the The One True Religion?

I respect the vigor in your search! Perhaps you should also observe the Peacock in action, if possible. That will reveal the hidden essence of the Peacock, if you know how to look for it.

On the One True Religion, I’m not such a big fan of people who seriously claim that despite all evidence. But I do think many cultures weren’t so serious about it, It seems to arise with Orthodoxy and literalism, where the Religion becomes invalid without Orthodoxy and literalisn (“If the Christian God didn’t create the World and he is not The One, how could Jesus be my savior!” Etc.)