What do you think of it?

do you think its real or was real?

or just a mythalogical creature

also if you have good pics of Phoenixes please don't hesitate to post them

This one was just funny:
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1603.cfm
The original bird for the united states was supposed to be the turkey, not the phoenix. The phoenix is originally from Arabia, not Egypt (there are two different kinds, the Benu from Egypt, and the traditional phoenix and the traditional phoenix came from Arabia), and Egyptian religions aren't even Satanic. This website is just sad, sad, and more sad, but it has good pictures, and if you want to laugh go ahead and look at it. :]

Ravens and Crows have been known to sit over a hot surface, such as the dying embers of a fire, and spread out their wings.

heres the only phoenix i want

During the consulship of Paulus Fabius and Lucius Vitellius, the bird called the phoenix, after a long succession of ages, appeared in Egypt and furnished the most learned men of that country and of Greece with abundant matter for the discussion of the marvellous phenomenon. It is my wish to make known all on which they agree with several things, questionable enough indeed, but not too absurd to be noticed.

That it is a creature sacred to the sun, differing from all other birds in its beak and in the tints of its plumage, is held unanimously by those who have described its nature. As to the number of years it lives, there are various accounts. The general tradition says five hundred years. Some maintain that it is seen at intervals of fourteen hundred and sixty-one years, and that the former birds flew into the city called Heliopolis successively in the reigns of Sesostris, Amasis, and Ptolemy, the third king of the Macedonian dynasty, with a multitude of companion birds marvelling at the novelty of the appearance. But all antiquity is of course obscure. From Ptolemy to Tiberius was a period of less than five hundred years. Consequently some have supposed that this was a spurious phoenix, not from the regions of Arabia, and with none of the instincts which ancient tradition has attributed to the bird. For when the number of years is completed and death is near, the phoenix, it is said, builds a nest in the land of its birth and infuses into it a germ of life from which an offspring arises, whose first care, when fledged, is to bury its father. This is not rashly done, but taking up a load of myrrh and having tried its strength by a long flight, as soon as it is equal to the burden and to the journey, it carries its father's body, bears it to the altar of the Sun, and leaves it to the flames. All this is full of doubt and legendary exaggeration. Still, there is no question that the bird is occasionally seen in Egypt.

Hahahahaa, omg so it is.

I've not heard of this behavior. Can you provide any source? Thanks.

The idea of a pheonix is cool (If you're looking for him, good luck, word tells me he's left Hogwarts after Dumbledore died) and I would love for one to be real, but I highly doubt that's true. I wonder where the original legend started from. The crow/raven with it's wings open a fire is interesting, but I wonder if that would truely be enough to fool someone.

reincarnation..

it's a metaphor for a human..

the human dies and rises again..

I've heard that said, but never heard any evidence. Is the phoenix associated with reincarnation legends, or more common in cultures holding that belief? As a metaphor for a life after death position it seems more similar to bodily resurrection than reincarnation.

I'm searching for pictures, hold on. All these pictures are too big to upload. Rawr...

Wow, there arn't many pheonix photos.

Tis called Yahoo.ca

and google.ca

and possibly msn.com

Yes, I know, but there arn't as many as most pictures. Normally I always get three hundred pages but I'm only getting a couple and a lot of them are of tattoos...