Tag: phoenix
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01 Orientalist Painting, Henri-Léopold Lévy’s Phoenix, with footnotes, #108
In Ancient Greek folklore, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion, others that it simply dies and decomposes before being born…