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“The creator sun god, in the form of a benu-bird, stands on a mound of land rising out of the primordial sea, divine light emerging from infinite darkness. The first cry from the benu’s throat sets time in motion.”
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“That is a current version of the most influential cosmology adopted by the high priests of Heliopolis, Egypt.”
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“That is a current version of the most influential cosmology adopted by the high priests of Heliopolis, Egypt.”
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“One of the most outspoken critics of the Phoenix is George Caspar Kirchmayer, a young professor who writes in a 1661 treatise that he regards ‘as impossible, absurd, and openly ridiculous whatever, except in the way of fiction, has been told of this creature.’ After millennia of general belief, the Phoenix was becoming a bird of fable, not of nature.”
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“After living five hundred years, Ovid’s aging bird builds its nest of spices in a palm tree, and from its body a new bird rises. ‘Reborn in ageless likeness,’ it is another and the same.”
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“The late Roman poet Claudian hailed the Phoenix as one that ‘hast beheld all that has been, / hast witnessed the passing of the ages.’”
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