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For many hundreds of years, people have told stories  \nabout creatures that lurk in mysterious places that are beyond our control, such as caves, mountains, rivers, lakes, the air and the ocean. Legends give us the idea that supernatural beings can weave their magic in all these places. Watch out for a fairy who might bring bad fortune, give you nightmares or make food go bad, or an angry giant who carves out valleys and scatters mountains across the land. Or perhaps you might meet a dragon or a magical serpent  \nwho can simply conjure rain, sleet, snow and storms from the air?  \nThe many exotic beasts you’ll meet in this book have human features, or are part-human and part-animal. Some of them are a medley of different animal parts. There is the terrifying basilisk, part-serpent and part-cockerel; the noble griffin, part-lion, part-eagle; and the mighty centaur, half-man, half-horse. There are alluring selkies, beautiful creatures who switch from human to seal, and mischievous werewolves, who shift their shape from human to wolf and back again. Prepare tobe enchanted, frightened and amazed, all atthe same time, when you dare to enter this spellbinding realm.  \n“Glorious phoenix,”cried the Sun [god].“You shall be my bird and live forever!”  \nThe immortal phoenix is a powerful symbol of hope – the triumph of new life over death.  \nThe true home of the phoenix is Paradise. In our world, only one such bird can live at  \nThe Phoenix any one time.  \nantastically beautiful birds often appear in mythological stories connected to ideas of death, rebirth and immortality. The phoenix is one such bird, from the Middle East. Every five or six centuries, the bird senses it is time to die, and it builds a ‘funeral nest’out of sweet-smelling sticks and herbs from Arabian spice groves. The phoenix then lies down to rest and sings an enchanting song, as the Sun rises and sets fire to the nest. Both the bird and the nest are turned to ashes – but a seed of life remains…  \nA tiny worm crawls from the ashes and grows into a new young phoenix. This chick collects the ashes into an egg made from myrrh, a gum-like material that comes from trees. According to some versions of the legend, the phoenix takes to the sky – surrounded by other birds – and carries the egg to Heliopolis, the Egyptian City of  \nthe Sun. Here, the egg is delivered to priests at a temple, where the ashes may be buried. The bird is now free to return to Arabia and begin its new life.  \nIn ancient Egyptian mythology, the phoenix is a female firebird, with dazzling, red-and-gold feathers, that lives for either 500 or 1,461 years. This bird is sometimes pictured asa heron, or a flamingo-like bird from East Africa, and can also regenerate itself if wounded by an enemy. In ancient Greek and Roman legends, the bird looks more like a peacock or an eagle. Most of the phoenix stories fea","cbCaicqJzv4f2gEp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicqJzv4f2gEp","pdf",989728,"English","# The Phoenix\n## Phoenix legend and symbolism\n# Giants\n## Finn McCool and Benandonner\n## Giant’s Causeway\n# Fearsome Giants","[{\"question\":\"What does the phoenix symbolize in the text?\",\"answer\":\"The phoenix symbolizes hope and the triumph of new life over death.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the phoenix renew itself according to the legend described?\",\"answer\":\"It builds a funeral nest, is burned to ashes, and a seed or new chick arises from the ashes to begin a new life.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the Giant’s Causeway said to be in the story?\",\"answer\":\"It is said to be the natural stone pavement left after giants built a pathway and later tore it up.\"}]","A Miscellany of Magical Beasts - The Phoenix | PDF",1791250501]