NR - Griffin, for want of a standard spelling...
Jennifer Smith
jds-emma at operamail.com
Thu Sep 14 10:48:11 PDT 2000
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
jds-emma at operamail.com
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