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Thy infant breast a like passion exhibit’d; Nonetheless in my arms (an ever-satisfying load) Or at my knee, by Phoenix wouldst thou stand; No food items was grateful but from Phoenix’ hand.[210] I go my watchings o’er thy helpless yrs, The tender labours, the compliant cares, The gods (I believed) reversed their tough decree, And Phoenix felt

The Greeks and Egyptians were not the only real civilizations with a resurrecting Solar bird. Other cultures—whether independently or motivated by their neighbors’ lore—spoke of comparable creatures. The Romans, of course, adopted the Phoenix straight from the Greeks. But Judaism also features a kind of Phoenix, the ḥôl, which very first a