Phoenix

Well, today we'll talk about one of the most beautiful creatures, strange and noble Greek mythology, is a bird, which has beautiful feathers ablaze, a look wise, and a respectable intelligence, when he dies, his ashes transformed into an egg, which is himself, that is the saying "Like a phoenix from my ashes revivire" I really love her, and I love this creature, here a little history;

"The phoenix or Phoenicoperus, as the Greeks knew, is a mythological bird the size of an eagle, feathered red, orange and yellow glow, strong beak and claws. According to some myths, lived in a region that included the area Middle East and India, reaching Egypt in North Africa. It was a fabulous bird reborn again from its own ashes. was quoted by the Egyptian priests of Heliopolis, the Greek Herodotus, Pliny the Latin writers Elder, Lucian, Ovid, Seneca, and Claudian Claudius, or the Christians Paul of Tarsus, St. Epiphanius of Salamis and St. Ambrose. According to legend Christianized, the phoenix lived in the Garden of Paradise, and nestled in a rosebush. When Adam and Eve were expelled from the sword of the angel who banished them came a spark that ignited the nest of the Phoenix, making them burn him and his tenant. As the only beast that had refused to taste the fruit of paradise, it was granted several gifts, the most prominent of immortality through the ability to rise from the ashes. When it was time to die, was a nest of spices and herbs, put a single egg, which hatched over three days, and the third burning days. The Phoenix was burned down completely, by reducing to ashes, the same egg resurgent phoenix, always unique and eternal. This happened five hundred years. "

"The Phoenix has its representations in different cultures, like China (Feng-Huang), Japan (the Ho-oo), Russia (The Firebird, which musically immortalized Stravinsky), the Egyptian (the Benu) The Hindu (Garuda), and even the Indians of North America (the Yel), or the Aztecs, Mayas and Toltecs (elQuetzal). was first mentioned by Hesiod in the eighth century BC and later and in more detail by the historian Herodotus. "