phoenix

Phoenix

Ovid tells the story of the Phoenix as follows: 'Most beings spring from other individuals; but there is a certain kind which reproduces itself. The Assurians call it the Phoenix. It does not live on fruit or flowers, but on frankincense and odoriferous gums. When it has lived five hundred years, it builds itself a nest in the branches of an oak, or on the top of a palm tree. In this it collects cinnamon and spikenard, and myrrh, and of these materials builds a pile on which it deosits itsellf, and dying breathes out its last breath amidst odors.
From the body of the parent bird, a young Phoenix issues forth, destined to live as long a life as its predecessor. When this has grown up and gained sufficient strength, it lifts its nest from the tree (its own cradle and its parnet's sepulchre), and carries it to the city of Heliopolis in Egypt, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun.' from Bulfinch's Mythology
According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every moring at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sind a beautiful song while it bathed in the well.
The Russian fire-bird has been known to speak as well as sing. The Chinese phoenix, teh Feng-huang, originated in the sun and is a mysterious and beutiful bird. The Japanese phoenix, the Ho-Oo, came to the earth to do good deeds for people. The Ho is the male phoenix, the Oo, the Felmale.
Only one phoenix exists at a time. When the bird felt that it was near death, every 500 to 1461 years, it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it on fire. The bird then was consumed by the flames.

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