Every 500 years or so, this bird was reborn from its own ashes
[DOC] [TLE] phoenix | mythological bird | Britannica.com [PAR] Phoenix, in ancient Egypt and in Classical antiquity, a fabulous bird ... Phoenix 
plucking at vegetation (left) and lying in flames waiting to be reborn from the 
ashes  ... solar bird who died and resurrected from its own ashes and who was 
its own ...