have we explored the possibility that whoever wrote the description of the biblically accurate angel had simply encountered his first peacock, and was having a hard time grappling with wrapping his head around that?

Confronted with a midsized hyper-color dinosaur he be'ed, in fact, afraid.

The Greeks found out about peacocks when Alexander's army brought them back from India, and immediately came up with an origin myth for it attributed to one of their gods. Gotta respect the hustle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_P...

Argus Panoptes - Wikipedia

there were definitely peacocks in biblical times so this doesn't *not* hold up

The biblical angel descriptions always kind of reminded me of a helicopter