THE PHOENIX

"Post fata resurgo"  ( I'll  rise again after death)

In Greek mythology, a phoenix or phenix is a long-lived bird that is cyclically regenerated or reborn (every 500 years). Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. The phoenix was subsequently adopted as a symbol in Early Christianity.
The ancient Egyptians were the first to talk about the Bennu, which then became the phoenix in Greek legends. In Egypt he was usually depicted with the Atef crown or with the emblem of the solar disk. Contrary to the "Phoenician" of other civilization the Egyptian Phoenix was not depicted as either similar to a bird of prey or a bird with its colorful tropical colors, but it was initially like a sparrow (the first dynasties) or a gray heron, also not rising from flames but by water.
In the Greek myths (but not only) it was a sacred fabulous bird and it had the appearance of a golden eagle with beautiful colored plumage, neck gold colored, red and blue body feathers with pink tail feathers , wings partly  gold and purple, a long slender beak, long legs, two long feathers - one pink and one blue - that slip softly down by the head (or erected on top of the head) and three long feathers that hang from the plumed tail - a pink, one blue and one red-fire.

Will our Phoenix reborn?

Let me dream....

Thanks Giulhia for pics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenice