
is said that in the original Eden, beneath the Tree of Good and Evil, bloomed a rose bush. There, with the first rose was born a bird, beautiful plumage and a unique singing and principles which made him the only person who declined to taste the fruit of the Tree. When Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, he fell on the nest a spark of the fiery sword of Cherubim, and the bird burned instantly.
But the flames themselves, a new bird, the Phoenix, with a unique feathers, wings of scarlet and gold body. Some fables then place it in Arabia, where he lived near a well of fresh water and bathed every day singing a melody so beautiful that God made the sun stop your car to listen.
Immortality was the reward for their loyalty to the divine precept, along with other qualities such as knowledge, the healing capacity of her tears, or his incredible strength. Throughout his many lives, their mission is to transmit knowledge from its source that holds the foot of the tree Good and Evil, and inspiration in their work to the seekers of knowledge, both artists and scientists.
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His chronology varies with the adaptation of the myth. Thus, 100, 500, 540, builds a funeral pyre in his own nest, filled with incense and aromatic plants, and sings while the most beautiful of all his songs, it turns itself into extinction. There is only a single bird, whose form of reproduction, is precisely the revival, which also is a symbol.
The myth of the phoenix became widespread among the Greeks, who gave the name of Phoenicoperus (meaning wings red), a name that spread throughout Roman Europe. The early Christians, influenced by the Hellenistic cults, this unique creature made a living symbol of immortality and resurrection. In ancient Egyptian mythology, the phoenix represented the Sun, who dies and is reborn evening morning. Another symbol is linked to the phoenix of hope, represents a value that should never die in man.
According to Ovid, "when the Phoenix is \u200b\u200breaching its end, build a special nest with branches of oak and filled with cinnamon, spikenard, and myrrh, on top of a palm tree. There are places and singing the most sublime of melodies, expires. After 3 days, from its own ashes, a new Phoenix arises, and when strong enough, leads the nest to Heliopolis, Egypt, and deposits it in the Temple of the Sun. "As the new Phoenix accumulated all the knowledge obtained since its inception, inspired a new cycle begins.
The Phoenix has its representations in different cultures, like China (Feng-Huang), Japan (the Ho-oo), Russia (The Firebird, immortalizing musically Stravinsky), the Egyptian (the Benu), Hindu (the Garuda), and even the Indians of North America (the Yel), or the Aztecs, Mayans and Toltecs (the Quetzal). It was first cited by Hesiod in the eighth century BC and later and in more detail by the historian Herodotus.
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