2006-07-15 09:44:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Said to live for 500 or 1461 years (depending on the source), the phoenix is a male bird with beautiful gold and red plumage. At the end of its life-cycle the phoenix builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix arises. The new phoenix embalms the ashes of the old phoenix in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in Heliopolis ("the city of the sun" in Greek), located in Egypt. The bird was also said to regenerate when hurt or wounded by a foe, thus being almost immortal and invincible — a symbol of fire and divinity.
Although descriptions (and life-span) vary, the phoenix (Bennu bird) became popular in early Christian art, literature and Christian symbolism, as a symbol of Christ, and further, represented the resurrection, immortality, and the life-after-death of Jesus Christ.
Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron-like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra.
2006-07-15 10:27:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I recall in greek mythology, it is a bird that use to be observed by the sun god. It would live a very long time, then lay eggs, build a nest, and allow the sun to burn them up in the nest when it knew it was dying. Then a hatchling would come from the ashes to begin the evolution of the Phoenix again. Sorry hope that's enough. I'm not sure if the bird significantly changed events and such in mythology- it was more of a pet to the god, also symbolizing rebirth or the circle of life.
2006-07-15 09:56:32 · answer #2 · answered by Bobby H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The phoenix is the mythological bird known for periodic destruction and re-creation.
2006-07-15 09:49:42 · answer #3 · answered by mom2all 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't recognize what the first 2 are, yet Medusa replaced right into a gorgon. She had snakes rather of hair and ought to turn you to stone in basic terms by skill of watching you. Wraiths is yet another call for ghosts; so human style yet with blurry outlines. there is purely one phoenix at a time (fowl). even as it really is time for it to die, it gadgets itself on hearth and the recent phoenix is born from the ashes.
2016-12-10 10:05:20 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as we know it's just a myth. But there is some indication that the myth referred to a type of gray heron or a Goliath heron "that exists on the coast of the Red Sea."
2006-07-15 09:58:28 · answer #5 · answered by TrippingJudy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a phoenix is a bird. a mythological bird. but it has some strange qualitys. like one, a pheonix loves to sing. another is that when one dies, it catches afire. it reproduces through its ashes.
2006-07-15 09:50:33 · answer #6 · answered by rune craftr 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a beautiful bird that was a god for the indians and the spaniards killed and burned but still it was reborn from the ashes. Good legend jajaja. Something like that was told by my indian great great grand mother.
2006-07-15 09:57:19 · answer #7 · answered by Jersey girl on Florida. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
It's a bird that , when is time to die, disappears into flames only to rebirth from the ashes.
Has special powers to heal.
2006-07-15 09:48:15 · answer #8 · answered by Andi Rolf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uh, yeah. It kind of lives forever in a way. and its a city in Arizona.
2006-07-15 09:48:31 · answer #9 · answered by ~mary~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋