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DAY 10 - Pavo

 # **DAY 10**

 15 rounds on sock B


Pavo - The Peacock  





Pavo is a constellation in the southern sky whose name is Latin for ‘peacock’. Pavo first appeared on a 35-cm (14 in) diameter celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Petrus Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer’s star atlas Uranometria of 1603. It is one of 4 constellations that make up the southern birds.


“In Greek myth the stars that are now the Peacock were Argos or Argus, builder of the ship Argo. He was changed by the goddess Juno into a peacock and placed in the sky along with his ship.” Indeed, the peacock “symbolized the starry firmament” for the Greeks, and the goddess Hera was believed to drive through the heavens in a chariot drawn by peacocks.

The peacock and the “Argus” nomenclature are also prominent in a different myth, in which Io, a beautiful princess of Argos, was lusted after by Zeus. Zeus changed Io into a heifer to deceive his wife Hera and couple with her. Hera saw through Zeus’s scheme and asked for the heifer as a gift. Zeus, unable to refuse such a reasonable request, reluctantly gave the heifer to Hera, who promptly banished Io and arranged for Argus Panoptes, a creature with one hundred eyes, to guard the now-pregnant Io from Zeus. Meanwhile, Zeus entreated Hermes to save Io; Hermes used music to lull Argus Panoptes to sleep, then slew him. Hera adorned the tail of a peacock—her favorite bird—with Argus’s eyes in his honor.

As recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the death of Argus Panoptes also contains an explicit celestial reference: “Argus lay dead; so many eyes, so bright quenched, and all hundred shrouded in one night. Hera retrieved those eyes to set in place among the feathers of her peacock, Pavo and filled his tail with starry jewels.”


**Prompt**

using the chart found HERE and one or more colours of a peacock (or white if you want to use the famous Malfoy Manor ones as inspiration) knit today's peacocks  (remember to go to the tab marked day 10 for the chart)


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