Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 18 - Phoenix

Oct 6, 200917 min read

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Published: Oct 6, 2009

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Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 18 - Phoenix

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This week's creature feature is: Phoenix

From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix :

The phoenix is a mythical sacred firebird which originated in the ancient mythologies mentioned in the Phoenician Mythology (Sanchuniathon) and the Egyptian and later the Greek Mythology.
A phoenix is a mythical bird with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends). It has a 500 to 1,000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of myrrh twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (sun city in Greek).
Flavius Philostratus (c. AD 170), who wrote the biography Life of Apollonius of Tyana, refers to the phoenix as a bird living in India, but sometimes migrating to Egypt every five hundred years. His account is clearly inspired by Garuda, the bird of the Hindu god Vishnu. He considered the bird as an emanation of sunlight, being in appearance and size much like an eagle.

Now, for the features! Works are featured from various categories, in no particular order:

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Phoenix Stencil - complete by Gun-Street-Girl

Phoenix -- Pipe Cleaners by kalicothekat

Houou Earrings Origami Phoenix by pandacub143

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phoenix...... from ashes by lovelycristina

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