The Fenix, the most beautiful of all the fabulous animals, symbolized the hope and the continuity of life after death. Coated with red feathers and gold, the colors of the rising sun, which had a melodious voice became sad when death approached.
The impression that its beauty and sadness caused in other animals came to cause their death. According to legend, only one Phoenix could live for ever, Hesiod, Greek poet of the eighth century BC, said that this bird lived nine times the lifetime of the crow, which has a long life. Other calculations mentioned until 97.200 years.
When the bird felt death approaching, he built a pyre of branches of the cinnamon tree, whose flames burned died. But from the ashes rose a new Phoenix so that mercifully put the remains of his mother in an egg of myrrh and flew with them to the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, which put them on the Altar of the Sun.
It was said that these ashes had the power to raise the dead.
The impression that its beauty and sadness caused in other animals came to cause their death. According to legend, only one Phoenix could live for ever, Hesiod, Greek poet of the eighth century BC, said that this bird lived nine times the lifetime of the crow, which has a long life. Other calculations mentioned until 97.200 years.
When the bird felt death approaching, he built a pyre of branches of the cinnamon tree, whose flames burned died. But from the ashes rose a new Phoenix so that mercifully put the remains of his mother in an egg of myrrh and flew with them to the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, which put them on the Altar of the Sun.
It was said that these ashes had the power to raise the dead.
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