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King and Queen Peacocks Bamboo Wall ScrollOrder this beautiful King and Queen Peacocks Bamboo Wall Scroll today! Only 4.99! Our scrolls sell fast! This King and Queen Peacocks Bamboo Wall Scroll will make you feel like you just got a good nignts sleep after viewing it! Very Calming and relaxing AND very affordable. The peacock is known as the bird with one hundred eyes. The eye-like patterns in its tail cause it to represent the stars, the universe, the sun, the moon, and the vault of heaven. To Christians this bird's many eyes are symbols of omniscience, the all-seeing God, and the all-seeing Church. Christ is portrayed as a Lamb with seven eyes "which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth" (Rev 5:6). The peacock's "eyes" also symbolize the beatific vision (i.e. the direct perception and knowledge of God as He truly is, enjoyed by angels, Christ, and the saints in heaven).Greeks and Romans considered this bird sacred to Hera (a.k.a. Juno) and kept peacocks in her temple. According to their mythologies, Hera created the peacock from the eyes of her one hundred-eyed guard, Argus. There are two versions of this myth. In one, the jealous Hera sets Argus to guard Zeus's secret lover, Io, whom he has disguised as a heifer in a vain attempt to protect her from his wife's wrath. Eventually, Zeus has Argus killed and Hera rewards the faithful guard by turning him into a peacock. In another version of this story, Argos falls asleep on the job and Hera plucks out every one of his eyes and sets them in the peacock's tail. Needless to say, Hera was quite the zealous protectress of marriage and the home. Peacocks may still be found in Indian temples. Many Hindu gods such as Lakshmi, Brahma, and Kama are portrayed riding upon peacocks. In China and Japan, the peacock is sacred to the goddesses of mercy, Kwan-yin and Kwannon. The peacock is a symbol of such compassion and empathy that it is thought to die of grief at the passing of its mate. However, one Moslem legend states that the peacock was the gatekeeper of Paradise until the day he swallowed the Devil and snuck him in.
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