The phoenix never existed. It was a large bird, much like an eagle, written about in Greek mythology and based on ancient Egyptian legends.
Only one phoenix was said to have lived at a time. This gold and red bird, always a male, lived in Arabia. Each phoenix lived for exactly 500 years, and when it was about to die, it gathered twigs and spices and built a nest. Then the phoenix sat on the nest and waited patiently for a ray of sun to set the nest on fire.
The bird never tried to escape its fiery death, for from its ashes a worm would come crawling out. This worm became a new, beautiful little phoenix, who immediately set to work gathering its father’s ashes into a ball of incense.
The phoenix then flew with these ashes to the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, the City of the Sun, and buried the ashes in the temple of the sun god. Then it flew back to Arabia to live for 500 years, when the cycle would be repeated.
Because of the phoenix’s rebirth from its own ashes, it became a symbol of immortality. Even today, a person who makes a comeback after suffering a great defeat is called a “phoenix.”
Some myths claim that each phoenix lived, not for 500 years, but for 97,200 years!
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wow facinating fact i was amaze. :-}
wow.. phoenix are cool ^^.. i was amazed by that info..
lol this is like weird as man…. why would you wright about sumfink as weird as this?!?!?1 lol jokes
nah this is very interesting as lol
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actually i am a lil doubtful about the whole arabia thing….phoenixs are supposed to be from india… in fact the sole inspiration for this bird also comes from the bird that serves as the vehicle of a god in india called garuda
Oh my Jonas, that is so cool. nooooooooooooooo way!!!!
Wow this information is very good. This inspires me to write a story of some sort. If it ever existed, it would’ve been my favorite bird.
in some legends they say the phoenix can turn to a human
oh and im one of those phoenixs
What ever they are real.HaHaHa
little shakey about the rebirth of the pheonix but still pretty cool
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Here’s a question if it got reborn from it ash’s every time it died then how come it’s not here right now? I mean it does get reborn from it’s ash’s so why dont we see it flying around from time to time?
A phoenix is not myth not legend but mytholengency half legend half myth it is also known as the flame bird all scientist have been working hard to find the aswer.Eventually they found out that the phoenix only live in one of the hottest places of africa.lol it said that some phoenix’s workked for the netherworld it’s outter space far,far,far,far away about 123,1645,000 miles from a high powerd teloscope .I have to tell u that the only way to see them is to go to africa then go to a very hot place like egypt then look on the mountains u have 1/100 of killing ur self