animalPeacockBeings · NatureA South Asian bird later kept in Mediterranean gardens. Hera’s later attribute and Indian peafowl are the same species in zoology, not one cult.Also known as peafowlHellenic religionPeacock is sacred to Hera.The same pairing. A South Asian bird in a Mediterranean garden-story.from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CEsacred to · sourced · documentedHera is associated with Peacock.Later Greek and Roman art gives Hera the peacock. Ovid tells Argus’s eyes on the bird’s tail; that is poetry’s aetiology, not Indian peafowl cult.from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CEassociated with · sourced · documentedVedic traditionPeacock appears in Vedic tradition.The bird is South Asian. Vedic and later Indian peafowl jobs exist; Hera’s peacock is a Mediterranean garden-story about the same species. Do not merge the cults.from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much olderappears in · interpretive · historically uncertainsourcesMetamorphoses · OvidOvid, Metamorphoses.The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.