Phoenix

PHOENIX – Flying Leopard

 

 

On night of 31/05/2008 and 01/06/2008, I dreamt about a flying Leopard with me as my pet animal. 

 

 

And my friend said that it reminds him of the Phoenix – and on internet the flying leopard is also a very great aircraft of “CH”inese origin for warfare.  Very maneuverable.   It is called the JH 7A Flying Leopard.

 

But as leopard (as panther and in the same category of jaguar) can be a totem animal of fire as you might loose someone dear when the leopard becomes your totem animal.  And I lost “CH”arlie and my grandmother, 12 hours apart on 7/05/2008 and 08/05/2008.  But in a way that leopard in my dream was “CH”arlie.

 

About the death of a Phoenix :

 

At the end of its life-cycle the phoenix builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix arises. The new phoenix is destined to live, usually, as long as the old one. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of the old phoenix in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (sun city in Greek

 

The Phoenix as seen by Christians :

 

a symbol of fire and divinity

 

Although descriptions (and life-span) vary, the phoenix ( Bennu bird) became popular in early Christian art, literature and Christian symbolism , as a symbol of Christ representing His resurrection , immortality , and life-after-death ( 1 Clement 25). Michael W. Holmes points out that early Christian writers justified their use of this myth because the word appears in Psalm 92:12 [LXX Psalm 91:13], but in that passage it actually refers to a palm tree, not a mythological bird, however, it was the "flourishing of Christian Hebraist interpretations of Job 29:18 that brought the Joban phoenix to life for Christian readers of the seventeenth century. At the heart of these interpretations is the proliferation of richly complementary meanings that turn upon three translations of the word chol — as phoenix, palm tree, or sand — in Job 29:18."

 

The Phoenix as seen by the Egyptians :

Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron -like bird called a benu , known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra .

So it seems (as further on in the article in Wikipedia), it is said that the Phoenix was the only bird not thrown out of paradise after sin took place.

01/06/2008 21:23 and 21 + 23 = 44 – the Hebrew name of God: “I will be revealed at ever greater levels”.