| What is the Phoenix?
In Greek mythology, the phoenix was a bird that
lived in Arabia. Each morning the phoenix would awake and
bath in a well near its roost. While it bathed, it sang a
beautiful song that the sun god Apollo stopped to hear each dawn
before he drove his sun chariot across the sky.
According to the myth, only one phoenix existed
on earth at a time. When it grew old, the phoenix would build a
nest of myrrh. The phoenix would settle its tired, aging body
into the center of the nest which would burst into flames when the
sun rose. The phoenix would be consumed by the flames and
from the ashes of the ancient bird, a new phoenix would be reborn.
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