Fawkes (nonspoiler)

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Fawkes (nonspoiler)
Reply To: [Yahoo! #4416] Re: Fawkes (nonspoiler)
Date: 7/16/00 6:06 pm  (ET)

> I believe a phoenix lives for 500 years. Then they die, burn, and a
new one is born out of the old one's ashes.

The Greeks named that bird a phoenix (based, like Phoenicia, on their
word for reddish-purple) and said it re-burnt every 500 words.

But the Greeks knew from nothing about phoenices until they went to
Egypt and learned about the bennu. "Bennu" meaning "shining" and it is
a bird that re-burns itself when the 1461 cycles of the 365 day year
align again with 1460 cycles of the solar year.