Anybody know the origin of the Phoenix or firebird?
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It is an assyrian bird,, according to my old mythology teacher .......\n\nThis I Found on line:\nThere are two similar versions of the account of the phoenix. In the first, it is a bird that lives in India. When it reaches the age of five hundred years, it flies to a frankincense tree and fills its wings with spices. In early spring a priest at Heliopolis covers an alter with twigs. The phoenix comes to the city, sees the alter, lights a fire there and is consumed by it. The next day a small, sweet-smelling worm is found in the ashes. On the second day the worm has transformed into a small bird, and on the third has the form of the phoenix again. The bird then returns to its place of origin.\n\nThe second version says that the phoenix is a purple or red bird that lives in Arabia. There is only one living phoenix in the world at any time. When it is old, it builds a pyre of wood and spices and climbs on to it. There it faces the sun and the fire ignites; it fans the fire with its wings until it is completely consumed. Some say it is the sun that ignites the fire; others say that the phoenix starts it by striking its beak against a stone, or that stones gathered with spices in the pyre rub together to create a spark. A new phoenix rises from the ash of the old.\n\nOther versions of the story combine parts of the above accounts. The tale of the phoenix is very old and was widely known throughout antiquity, with many variations.\n\nIF you wanna read more you can go here:\nhttp://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast149.htm\n\nHope this helps! Cheers!!
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I'm not to sure of this ,but I think I once read somewhere\nabout bomber crews of the R.A.F. and the U.S.A.A.F.(as it was then)reporting strange looking aircraft that they saw in European skies,try the reference library,a fascinating subject,best of luck with it
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Carduelis is not a species, but a genus of the family of birds called finches or Fringillidae.  It  includes the greenfinches, redpolls, goldfinches, linnets, the twite and the non-African siskins.The wild canary (serinus canarie) and the red-fronted serin (serinus pusillus) both belong to the genus Serinus - also in the finch family Fringillidae. It includes the canaries, seedeaters and the African siskins.  So, I would say that the serinus pusillus is closest (genetically-speaking) to the canary (serinus canarie.)
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Currently there is only one. It is called the xylophone bird. I don't know much about it though.
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The elusive Hoosier, has been around for over one hundred years and yet nobody has any idea where it came from or why it is here or even what it means.  It is the most elusive bird in the USA but even a college has named its mascot and teams after it.\n\nGo Hoosiers.......\n\nJust an addendum:  There is also the wild Euchre, which after you leave Indiana and ask people about Euchre they say they never heard of it, no colleges though.
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(m)\n\ncheck the following website\n\n\nhttp://www.nature.com/nature/focus/avianflu/timeline.html#top
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go to this link to see what wikipedia has on the pheonix:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_%28mythology%29
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Dragon.\nClose friends tell me that this comes as close as possible to my alter-ego.  Old, fire breathing, not too pretty to look at, probably very dark blue (almost black) with a wingspan long enough to have to fold tightly again the body when flying through the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.  **grin**
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The Birth of the Bird? -\nBefore the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and they would therefore be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew"). Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won the major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew!\nPLUCK YEW!" Over the years some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this symbolic gesture. Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say (like "pleasant mother pheasant plucker", which is who you had to go to for the feathers used on the arrows for the longbow), the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter.\nIt is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird".
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the phoenix in native american mythology rose from it's own ashes.  I don't know if that counts or not.
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You can find background information on Icarus and Daedalus and the story of The Fall of Icarus o this site:\nhttp://thanasis.com/icarus.htm
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You can probably search up all those questions on google or something. But I think Venus got it's name from the Roman/Greek God Venus.
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In Greek mythology, the Vulture is the descendant of the Griffin.  It was a very Buddhist-like, Zen-like symbol of the non-dual oneness of heaven and earth, spirit and matter, good and evil, guardian and avenger.  The Vulture is the avenger of nature spirits.    Ancient Assyrians believed the Vulture was, like Nagarjuna's middle way, Sunyata, the encompassing overall non-separated union between the day and night.\n\nIn Egyptian mythology, Nephthys (spelt Nebet-het, and Nebt-het, in transliteration from hieroglyphs) is one of the Ennead of Heliopolis, a daughter of Nuit and Geb, and the wife of Set. \n\nShe was banished to the desert.  As she was also seen as a bird, she gradually became seen as a vulture, which the egyptians believed never had children due to being believed to all be female (they thought vultures were spontaneously created from air). Although vultures were seen in a positive light, their feeding behaviour nevertheless lead them to be associated also with decay and death, and so Nephthys too gradually became a goddess of death and decay.
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Someone in a forum wrote that it first came about in the US in a novel in 1921, and was also related to fighter jets in WWI. I don't know how valid this is, but feel free to check it out at the link below.
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Which came first, the birdie or the eagle? The birdie, and the eagle followed and continued the feathered theme.\n\nIn American slang of the 19th Century, the term "bird" was applied to anything particularly great. "Bird" was the "cool" of the 1800s in the U.S.\n\nSo on the golf course, a great shot - one that led to an under-par score - came to be known as a "bird," which was then transformed into "birdie." The term birdie was in worldwide use by the 1910s, and it's believed it debuted in the U.S. in 1899.\n\nAn "eagle" simply followed "birdie," being added to the lexicon in keeping with the avian image of birdie. And "albatross" later came along for the same reason.\n\nSource: USGA Museum
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa_%28bird%29
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43.1911.encycloredia.org/b/bi/bird.htm\nam i your best answerer?