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Astaroth · Mar 12, 2008, 01:51 PM

My favorite would definitely have to be the Phoenix...
The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death. In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, it is associated with the sun god. According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sing a beautiful song while it bathed in the well. Only one phoenix exists at a time. When the bird felt its death was near, every 500 to 1,461 years, it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it on fire. The bird then was consumed by the flames. A new phoenix sprang forth from the pyre. It embalmed the ashes of its predecessor in an egg of myrrh and flew with it to Heliopolis, "city of the sun," where the egg was deposited on the altar of the sun god. In Egypt, it was usually depicted as a heron, but in the classic literature as a peacock or an eagle.......
I find this creature to have amazing qualities and in my opinion it outshines all the other mythical creatures.....^^

Mar 12, 2008, 01:51 PM	#3 (permalink)
Astaroth Chtonian Slayer Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: In the deepest, darkest place of hell.....my heart Posts: 532 Thanks: 23 Thanked 44 Times in 42 Posts Credits: 25,833	Re: Legendary creatures My favorite would definitely have to be the Phoenix... The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death. In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, it is associated with the sun god. According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sing a beautiful song while it bathed in the well. Only one phoenix exists at a time. When the bird felt its death was near, every 500 to 1,461 years, it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it on fire. The bird then was consumed by the flames. A new phoenix sprang forth from the pyre. It embalmed the ashes of its predecessor in an egg of myrrh and flew with it to Heliopolis, "city of the sun," where the egg was deposited on the altar of the sun god. In Egypt, it was usually depicted as a heron, but in the classic literature as a peacock or an eagle....... I find this creature to have amazing qualities and in my opinion it outshines all the other mythical creatures.....^^ __________________ Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
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