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Phoenix


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  • n. A borrowing from the Latin "phoenīx". From the Old English "fenix" and Middle English "phenes" "fenyx" "fenyce" "phenex" among others. It is the representation, as a motif, of a a bird resembling an eagle but with sumptuous red and gold plumage which burns itself to ashes on a funeral pyre ignited by the sun and fanned by its own wings, only to rise from its ashes with renewed youth to live through another such cycle

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