I like pheonixes. I think that they're from some mythology, maybe greek, maybe roman, maybe not even a mythology. But that doesn't stop the fact that phoenixes are cool. I love the idea of being reborn from the ashes! I don't think I would enjoy doing it.. or.. maybe... wait... t'would be interesting lives to say the least. But just the fact that once they thought that there was such a creature, a bird, who could do such a thing.. it's amazing. A very cool concept to say the least.
I mean, could you imagine being a creature capable of recreating itself from it's ashes when it does? And to live in such a cycle, over and over again? Think of the possiblilities. Not only that, but they look cool as well. Or, at least the one in HP2 does. I watched that today. And yeah yeah the new book is called Order of the Pheonix, but there's not really any allusion to one at all.
Another place I saw an allusion to the pheonix was in Titan A.E. I like that movie. Well there's a ship in there that is called the phoenix, because that's what they named it after ressurecting it. It was cool. I was like.... ooooooooo symbolism... because I've been in english too long and that is something that's engraved into our heads.
I first came across the phoenix through Hardy Boys... I liked Hardy Boys mystery books a lot more than Nancy Drew. Never really liked Nancy Drew. But in one of their books there was something about a pheonix.. I think it was something with a boat. I'm not sure anymore. But back then I was too young to understand the concept of the .... concept... yeah
In english, this one poem that Morgan and Kara and I studied had a phoenix concept in it. The poem was Sailing to Byzantium, by Yeats. Or at least we think it's Yeats. I'm too lazy right now to look it up. Well anyway, if I remember correctly, he said that he didn't want to be like the phoenix, and wished not to rise again. But he wanted to be remembered. Anyway, I'm just saying that they still come up in civil conversation nowadays.
There's a pheonix in a good movie, although not Disney, one that seems like a Disney movie; I am talking about Titan A.E. by Warner Bros. Well there this this space ship at one point that the main two protagonist characters sucessfully 'reincarnate' by fixing it up, which is called the Phoenix. Hehe. I like that movie.
I feel I'm lacking a very prominent symbol use of the phoenix, but it's not coming to me. *sigh* OOoooo ooooo oooo!! I remember! It has to do with X-Men, and the character, Pheonix, that we get to meet in the third movie, or so one of my comrades [friend is too strong of a name to use here] has predicted. I sure hope that what he says is true, because from what I hear she is a very wicked character. :)
Pheonix's, or phoenix's, whichever way you prefer, have always been used in literature, and so forth. It would be great to know where the concept, legend, or folklore came from; I read somewhere once that it was thought to actually exist, this bird, who would ignite in flame and then reappear again, as a new born. Seems a bit far-fetched, but then again, so does a lot of mythology I read. Hmm. Well yeah... either way, I still love the concept, and all the variations Warner Bros and Yeats and such take on for the one idea.
There is, of course, the town called Pheonix, but it's of little importance or concern for me.
