This creature is associated with the Chinese Feng-Huang, Egyptian Benz, and Hindu Garuda.
This creature is associated with the Chinese Feng-Huang, Egyptian Benz, and Hindu Garuda. According to Ovid, this creature lives on frankincense and odoriferous gums, and once every five hundred years this creature approaches Heliopolis to deposit an egg on the sun god's altar. This creature lives near a cool well, and its tears can heal any wound. Shakespeare wrote a poem about a turtle dove and one of these animals, which looks like an eagle with purple wings. Name this bird who, upon dying, bursts into flames and is reborn.
This creature is associated with the Chinese Feng-Huang, Egyptian Benz, and Hindu Garuda.
phoenix