Phoenix the fire bird

Phoenix is ​​a sacred bird derived from Egyptian mythology and is described to have very beautiful feathers and long red and gold. However, there are at least three different descriptions of the Phoenix feather color. Some say that the head, chest, and back are red and gold with wings berawarna-irides. Her legs were purple, her eyes were navy blue. Others say that his body is plum-colored with red backs and wing feathers and gold-colored heads and long, roses and blue tails. The third description states that Phoenix is ​​mostly purple with gold-headed neck and head. It is possible that the three descriptions are Phoenix at various stages of his life.

Phoenix is ​​also said to live for 500 years, even 1461 years.
this Phoenix bird, he does not lay eggs let alone the name hatched eggs or have children, Phoenix only one, then at the end of life the bird will collect twigs of wood, and he makes a kind of '' fireplace '' and strangely the phoenix just collect twigs a fragrant wooden twig!

After the fireplace had begun to fire the Phoenix bird sat in the nest, flapping the wings to make the fire more enlarged and about the nest, while still sitting in the nest, and whistling with the dendang '' sadness '' and sorrow, when the song is already dendang no more the sign of the Phoenix bird and its nest had been burned into a pile of ash, from the smoke of the ash that would form a clump of smoke that resembles the phoenix, beginning at the head. the beak and tail continued to be complete like the paintings but made of smoke, and not long after that the painted smoke like the phoenix was slowly transformed into a true phoenix and moved and then flew, he was reborn into a new phoenix !!
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Ovid, a Latin poet wrote:

There are birds that can rise again and again.
Assyrian nation gave him the name Phoenix.
He does not eat grains or herbs, just wood droplets
resin and liquid from cardamom.
If this bird had lived for five centuries,
with his claws and shining beak he built a high nest on the palm branch.
He placed the cassia skin in his new nest and circuit
flower petals and cinnamon with yellow myrrh sap.
Then he lay in the intoxicating fragrance,
and die.
And the Assyrians said from the body the bird rose again
a small phoenix destined to live five centuries away.

Because of its immortal character, the Phoenix is ​​known as the symbol of immortality, the symbol of the life cycle after death, and the symbol of the resurrection of the body after death. It is also said that Phoenix tears can heal the wound and its blood can be used as a balm.

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