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"Time and Death", 1898 illustration by E. J. Sullivan for Sartor Resartus. In the 19th-century novel Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle, Diogenes Teufelsdröckh uses the phoenix as a metaphor for the cyclical pattern of history, remarking upon the "burning of a World-Phoenix" and the "Palingenesia, or Newbirth of Society" from its ashes:
The term "dying god" is associated with the works of James Frazer, [4] Jane Ellen Harrison, and their fellow Cambridge Ritualists. [16] At the end of the 19th century, in their The Golden Bough [4] and Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Frazer and Harrison argued that all myths are echoes of rituals, and that all rituals have as their primordial purpose the manipulation of natural ...
Edith Nesbit's famous children's novel The Phoenix and the Carpet is based on this legendary creature and its friendship with a family of children. In the Vermilion Bird, a mystical Phoenix symbol represents of Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. D. H. Lawrence frequently used the phoenix as a symbol for rebirth in life.
The naga primarily represents rebirth, death and mortality, due to its casting of its skin and being symbolically "reborn". Hindus associate the naga with the deities Shiva and Vishnu. Shesha is one of the two mounts of Vishnu, upon which the deity rests. Vasuki is a serpent coiled around the neck of Shiva.
Pages in category "Life-death-rebirth gods" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adonis;
Name derived from Lenape language word for snake, but creature completely made up by whites. Ammut – female demon, funerary deity and animal hybrid (Egypt) Bakunawa – Serpent-like Dragon in Philippines (Philippines) Basilisk – king of serpents, has the power to cause death with a single glance (Europe)
Bennu (/ ˈ b ɛ n uː /) [1] is an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the Sun, creation, and rebirth. He may have been the original inspiration for the phoenix legends that developed in Greek mythology .
The ouroboros is often interpreted as a symbol for eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death and rebirth; the snake's skin-sloughing symbolises the transmigration of souls. The snake biting its own tail is a fertility symbol in some religions: the tail is a phallic symbol and the mouth is a yonic or womb-like symbol. [9]