June :: Noob :: Emo
Well I'm just reserving my space in this month's challenge since I'm loving the topic!!!
Anyway... I've decided on a Mythological Phoenix Bird... my inspiration comes from the game Age of Mythology because I loved how they looked in the game so I'm gonna go for something similar to that.
About 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.
Wish me luck cuz I know I'll need it
-Emo
Last edited by Emo; 02-06-2004 at 12:33 PM.