The phoenix was associated with immortality and eternal rebirth in Egypt, and the Romans used it on coins to symbolize Rome, the Eternal City. Resurrection coming to life again rising from the dead Then the young phoenix carried the egg to Heliopolis, the Egyptian city of the sun, and placed it on the altar of the sun god Ra (Re). When the young bird was strong enough, it placed the ashes of the dead phoenix in an egg made of myrrh.
However, a new phoenix rose from the ashes. Then it set the nest on fire and died in the flames. Just before dying, the phoenix built a nest of fragrant herbs and spices, including cinnamon and myrrh. It had brilliant golden and scarlet feathers and grew to the size of an eagle. According to ancient writers, the phoenix lived for 500 years, then died and was reborn. The phoenix is a legendary bird mentioned in Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology. Phoenix Park Murders the murder in Phoenix Park, Dublin, with surgical knives, of the newly arrived Irish chief secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and under-secretary T. The usage is recorded from the early 1990s. Phoenix company a derogatory term for an insolvent company which is placed into voluntary liquidation by its directors, trading being resumed soon afterwards under a different company name. Phoenix (in classical mythology) a unique bird, resembling an eagle but with rich red and gold plumage, that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert (it is also known as the Arabian bird), after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre ignited by the sun and fanned by its own wings, and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle.Ī variation of the myth stated that the phoenix burnt itself on the altar of the temple of Helios (the Sun) at Heliopolis ( Egypt), and that a worm emerged from the ashes and became the young phoenix.
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