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A second recording of the phoenix was made by Tacitus, who said that the phoenix had appeared instead in 34 AD "in the consulship of Paulus Fabius and Lucius Vitellius" and that the cycle was either 500 years or 1461 years (which was the Great Year based on the Egyptian Sothic cycle), and that it had previously been seen in the reigns first of ...
Agoa- (American) turtle monster of West Virginian lore centered around the Monongahela River. 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)
La Fenice ("The Phoenix") is a famous Opera house in Venice, Italy which burned down twice in 1836 and in 1996 only to be rebuilt, likening it more closely to its mythical namesake. The alternative rock band Live makes reference in the song " The Dolphin's Cry " saying "this phoenix rises up from the ground, when all these wars are over".
Historically, serpents and snakes represent fertility or a creative life force. As snakes shed their skin through sloughing, they are symbols of rebirth, transformation, immortality, and healing. [11] The ouroboros is a symbol of eternity and continual renewal of life. In some Abrahamic traditions, the serpent represents sexual desire. [12]
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 .
Achilles was an exceedingly beautiful man who entered a beauty contest against Aphrodite. Pan, the judge, deemed Achilles to be the most beautiful, so then Aphrodite cursed him to be as ugly as he had once been attractive. Antigone: Snake-haired woman Hera Antigone boasted of being prettier than Hera, so the goddess gave her snakes for hair ...
But the joy of the people on earth didn't last, and the beauty of the sky was no more when one night a terrifying creature, that coiled around the world like an evil serpent, as Saint John told about in Apocalipsis[3], envied the beautiful creations of the Almighty, and to the great dismay of the people on earth, swallowed six of the Moons.
Huma bird, Iranian mythical bird; Hybrid creatures in mythology; Konrul, Turkish mythological hybrid bird; Lamassu, Assyrian deity, bull/lion-eagle-human hybrid; Luan, Chinese mythological bird related to the phoenix, whose name is often translated as "simurgh" Nue, Japanese legendary creature; Oksoko, Slavic mythological double-headed eagle