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Or maybe a desert villager named Ezekiel with literally zero education and world experiences who was high on drugs saw a peacock which likely escaped from a local traveling merchant cage because those animals come from a fucking jungle, and the idiot couldn't explain what he saw and just attributed it to an angel because he and his religious buddies are all fucking stupid.
probably a blend