28.) According to a story which has gained more currency in modern times, Phoenix, when he arrived at a very old age (some say 500 and others 1461 years), committed himself to the flames. As soon as the latter was grown up, he, like his predecessor, proceeded to Heliopolis in Egypt, and burned and buried his father in the temple of Helios. 25.) Of this bird it is further related, thai when his life drew to a close, he built a nest for himself in Arabia, to which he imparted the power of generation, so that after his death a new phoenix rose out of it. This bird was represented resembling an eagle, with feathers partly red and partly golden. For this purpose Phoenix was believed to come fror Arabia, and to make lan egg of myrrh as large as possible this egg he then hollowved out and put into it his father, closing it up carefully, and the egg was believed then to be of exactly the same weight as before. 73) heard at Heliopolis in Egypt, visited that place once in every five hundred years, on his father's death, and buried him in the sanctuary of Helios. A fabulous bird Phoenix, who, according to a belief which Herodotus (ii. THE PHOINIX (Herodotus 2.73, Ovid Metamorphoses 15.385, Apollonius of Tyana 1.38, Claudian Phoenix) OFFSPRING It then encased its parent in an egg of myrrh and conveyed it to the great Egyptian temple of the Sun-God in Heliopolis. When it died a new Phoinix emerged fully-grown from its body. The creature lived for five hundred years and feasted upon Arabian balsalm and frankinsense. THE PHOINIX (Phoenix) was a fabulous, red-gold feathered bird whose body emitted rays of pure sunlight. Phoenician? Phoenix, Aberdeen Bestiary manuscript (1200), Aberdeen University Library
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