How did the concept of phoenix come into existence?

Question

Phoenix - the bird.

Answer 1

The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death. In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, it is associated with the sun god.

According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sing a beautiful song while it bathed in the well.

Only one phoenix exists at a time. When the bird felt its death was near, every 500 to 1,461 years, it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it on fire. The bird then was consumed by the flames.

A new phoenix sprang forth from the pyre. It embalmed the ashes of its predecessor in an egg of myrrh and flew with it to Heliopolis, "city of the sun," where the egg was deposited on the altar of the sun god. In Egypt, it was usually depicted as a heron, but in the classic literature as a peacock or an eagle.

Answer 2

i agree with the guy above.. Because people are so afraid of death they made a animal that could arise from death and live again.. Phoenix most likely came from the sun. Someone had too much to drink and saw the sun rise and low and behold he saw a bird covered in flames. But I really like the idea of the Phoenix so don't take offense i didn't mean to sound so harsh.

Answer 3

I agree with the already detailed and not so much ,as my simple way of saying it ,is as it represents--- the classic ..LIFE...DEATH...REBIRTH.. Concept ... Just another way of looking at so many religions , both mainstream and the many others that still exist... Whilst people still believe in the Phoenix ,it is the the power from the other realm/s , that keeps this alive, as do people who work with them during ritual and people who just pay them homage. They are all but Energy,as are we , just having a differerent vibration in time

Answer 4

I think it was Horace, son of Osiris in ancient Egypt, who died and arose as the Phoenix.

Also note this same myth model is used in Nordic Mythology, and even Christianity to some extent.

Answer 5

Egypt and India... a synthesis of ideas for the symbol became what we know of it today... the crimson dawn renewing the day (Krishna)... the Birth of Ra from Osiris... the pure crane emerging from the ashes of destruction.

Answer 6

500 YRS. OLD ---ONLY ONE EXISTING AT A TIME---AS LARGE AS AN EAGLE WITH SCARLET & GOLD PLUMAGE---AT THE POINT OF DEATH ---FASHIONED A NEST OF AROMATIC TREE LIMBS & SPICES----SET ON FIRE & FROM THE ASHES OF THE FATHER ---CAME THIS NEW MIRACULOUS SON FLYING IN FULL CHROMATIC SPLENDER---AN EGYPTIAN IDEA OF IMMORTALITY------BUT THIS WAS NOT IMMORTALITY BECAUSE IT MEANS TO NEVER DIE---THIS WAS A SORT OF RESURECTION BUT OF ONLY A NEW LIFE.......NOT LIKE OUR SOULS THAT NEVER DIE FOR ALL ETERNITY.......THEY WERE TRYING TO BE PERPETUAL IN THIS LIFE.....NOT KNOWING THERE WAS AN END TO THE BODY UNTIL THE FINAL RESURECTION.................REUNITING A DEAD BODY( NOW REFORMED ) TO A FOREVER LIVING SOUL........THIS ONLY PROVES THE GOD-QUEST PLACED WITHIN ALL OF US BY GOD HIMSELF...........

Answer 7

It stems from something Ancient Egyptians called : 'mfkzt' and it has to do with the House of Gold.....For those who have ears to hear...;)

Answer 8

its not real