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Phoenix

Beings · Myth & story · Nature

A bird said to renew itself through fire or long age. Classical natural history and later rebirth talk should not be flattened into one bird.

Egyptian religion

  • Phoenix appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus Histories 2 reports the phoenix as a sacred bird of Egyptian Heliopolis that renews itself after long age. Egyptian temple lore told to a Greek traveler, not a rebirth slogan for every culture.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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