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Does a Phoenix lay eggs

Updated: 4/28/2022
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No. A phoenix is an Egyptian mythical 'air' creature, aka Bennu. According to the hystorian Herodotus, when a phoenix is dying, it creates a pyre made of burning branches of incense, and waits there to die. A worm crawls from its ashes and the heat of the sun turns it into a phoenix. Every 500 years that phoenix carries its father's ashes from Arabia to Heliopolis and embalms it in an egg made of myrrh. It then leaves them in the Temple of the Sun and goes off to die.

In Chinese mythology, the Feng Huang is a male and female bird combined, unlike the Egyptian or Greco-Roman phoenix. It is immortal. The Persian Simurgh is a combination of 30 birds, and the Russian Firebird or Zhar-Ptitsa eats the golden apples of immortality.

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