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26 August, 2015
MessageToEagle.com -
What is really behind the story of Phoenix, the bird of immortality, the bird
that rises from the ashes?
The Phoenix is
known in various forms and by various names throughout the Middle and Far
East, the Mediterranean, and Europe. It is a symbol of resurrection. The name
Phoenix may have come from the Greek phoinix and may be related to phoinos
(blood-red).
In ancient Egypt
the Phoenix was called the "Lord of Jubilees," and was considered
to be the ba (spirit) of the Sun God Ra. In Mesopotamia the Phoenix
symbolized by the horned and winged solar disk. Alchemists used the Phoenix
to symbolize the color red and the successful end of a process. The medieval
Hermeticists used the Phoenix as a symbol of alchemical transmutation.
Legends tell that
the Phoenix had feathers of red and gold, the color of the rising Sun. It had
a wonderful melodious voice, which became mournful with approaching death.
Other creatures were then so overcome by its beauty and sadness that they
fell dead.
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