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As
the phoenix felt its death coming, it would make a nest out of
sweet-smelling wood, then set it's nest on fire. The flames would
burn the phoenix to death. After the phoenix had died, a new phoenix
would appear from the ashes of the fire. Once the new phoenix
appeared, it would place the ashes of its predecessor in an egg of myrrh.
The new Pheonix then took the egg and flew with it to Heliopolis. At
Heliopolis it would drop the egg at the altar of the sun-god. Did you know? Immortality, resurrection, and life after death is what the phoenix symbolizes! |
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Ancient
Egyptian and Greek mythology showed that the phoenix and the sun-god Re were
associated with each other. The
Eguptians thought the phoenix lived in Arabia
near a cool well. At dawn in the morning the phoenix would bathe and sing
a beautiful song, and while the phoenix was singing, the sun-god would
stop his chariot just to listen to it sing.
