NR - Griffin, for want of a standard spelling...

[Jennifer Smith]

On 14 Sep 00, at 11:09, Susan O'Neal wrote:
> Is the Phoenix blazonable?  

Yes.

> I keep comming across this imagry recently and 
> find it facinating.  For our experts out there, what mythos is it included 
> in other than the Cherokee?  Other than rising from ruin, what symbolism 
> does it have?

It's originally Egyptian.  According to my Webster's New World Dictionary, 
"in Egyptian mythology, a beautiful, lone bird which lived in the Arabain 
desert for 500 or 600 years and then consumed itself in fire, rising renewed 
from the ashes to tart another long life; it is used as a symbol of 
immortality."

Again for the etymology-inclined, the word comes originally from Greek, 
"phoinix" (again, blame Latin for that i->e shift).  It is worth noting that the 
word also means "a purple-red, deep purple or crimson color", so named 
because the Phoenicians discovered the color (or more properly, how to 
GET the color...)

-Emma


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Jennifer Smith
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