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Probably the most important of the mythological birds, and a favorite motif in tattoo artwork, the phoenix was known in ancient Egypt, Greece, China and the Middle East. In the many stories that surround it.
Two aspects remain constant though � its unmatched splendor and the immortality it derived by rising from its own ashes.
Its name comes from the Greek word for �red�, the color of fire. According to the Greek historians Herodotus and Plutarch, it came originally from Ethiopia. For the ancient Egyptians, though, a heron was the first animal to land on the hill that rose out of the primordial ooze.
Benu, as they named it, was worshipped as a manifestation of the sun god and thought to appear only once every 500 years.
In ancient China, the feng-huang bird was able to unite both yin and yang and was used as a symbol of marriage. In ancient Rome, it was stamped onto coins to symbolize the endurance of the empire.
