[HPforGrownups] Phoenixes

[Barbara Purdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 20394


--- cetoll-calafiore at yorktel.com wrote:
> I have a question for whoever wants to answer it. I
> was just 
> re-reading CoS and came to the part where Fawkes
> dies and is reborn. 
> Does it say anywhere, or does anyone have any
> theories on how often a 
> phoenix dies and is reborn?
> 
> Christine
> 
According to the Greek historian Herodotus (5th cent.
B.C.E), the phoenix was a bird like an eagle, with red
and gold plumage, and which inhabited Arabia.  Only
one could be alive at any time, and every 500 years it
went to Heliopolis (city of the sun), constructed an
altar, set fire to itself on it, and rose again,
beautiful and young, from the ashes of the pyre. 


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