A phoenix is a mythical bird with a colourful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends). It has a 500 to 1,000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of myrrh twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (sun city in Greek).
So we have a fire bird tied to Sun worship, another 1000 year period similar to that of Revelation/Arabian Nights/Hitler’s Reich, lighting itself on fire and becoming reborn.
We find images of a bird archetype spreading its wings in various places such as logos, art, family coat of arms, mythology and the Bible.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Note the lightning bolts used as slashes.
In Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, they fire off one of Gandalf’s “Dragon” fireworks that closely resembles a phoenix bird. In the Bible, a dove is released from the Ark and retrieves an olive branch:
Genesis 8:11 (King James Version) And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
