... in response to Hey, I like!, posted by coaster881 on Jan 12, 2002The Phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection, and life after death. In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, it is associated with the sun god. According to the Greeks,the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sing a beautiful song while it bathed in the well. Only one phoenix exists at one time. When the bird felt its death was near, every 500 to 1,461 years, it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it on fire. The bird then was consumed by the flames. A new phoenix sprang forth from the pyre. It embalmed the ashes of its predecessor in an egg of myrrh and flew with it to Heliopolis, "City of the Sun," where the egg was deposited on the altar of the sun god.
The analogy can be associated with the past marriages and lives of the men and women. From the death of divorce or disillusion comes a new life of love. The story is of course is a legend. But legends are powerful stuff?
Ya, what the heck, as long as the sun god doesn't mind, its yours!