| 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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