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Ave phoenix meaning12/3/2023 The Greek historian Herodotus, who traveled to Egypt and spoke to high-priests of Heliopolis, wrote in his account, “…I have not seen a phoenix actually, except in the paintings, because it does not visit the country often, in fact, at Heliopolis, it can be seen only after a considerable period of 500 years. It was here that bird immolated itself and was reborn from its own ashes. Bennu is believed to have hailed from Arabia from where it flew to Heliopolis after every 500 years. In ancient paintings, it bears a red and golden plumage. In some depictions, the crown of Osiris, the lord of the underworld or the disc of the Ra, the sun-god also appear as its headdress. It is often depicted as bird with long legs and a long beak and having two long feathers on its head. Moreover, in the Egyptian hieroglyphs, Bennu represents both, rising as well as setting sun. This description shows the association of Bennu with sun-god. The Egyptian Book of the Dead describes Bennu as the heart and soul of Ra and the guide of the gods of the underworld. Bennu has been depicted as a tall bird that resembles a stork or a heron. ![]() In lieu of these beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, we find references to a mythical bird known as Bennu in their mythology. Egyptian Mythology - The ancient Egyptians were seemingly the first people to have incorporated in their mythical tradition, the concepts of immortality, resurrection and rebirth. For example, the Catholic Encyclopedia records that Origen dubbed the palm tree “the symbol of victory in that war waged by the spirit against the flesh.” This source further asserts, “In this sense it was especially applicable to martyrs, the victors par excellence over the spiritual foes of mankind hence the frequent occurrence in the Acts of the martyrs of such expressions as ‘he received the palm of martyrdom.’” It’s hard to avoid making a connection between Origen’s words and the Roman view of the palm as a symbol of the pagan goddess Victory. They noted its uniqueness (“the only one of its kind”) and began to interpret the phoenix of pagan myth not only as a Christian symbol of virgin birth, renovation and resurrection but as a type or allegory of Jesus Christ Himself.Other aspects of the pagan story have worked their way into Christian literature and iconography as well. And around the sixth century, an anonymous Coptic preacher wrote a sermon in which he claimed that the phoenix had first been seen at the time of Cain and Abel, and that it was last seen just after Jesus’ birth, “which now indicates to us the resurrection.” Little by little, Christian writers began to read more into the various references to the strange creature. In the words of Cyril, “God knew men’s unbelief and provided for this purpose a bird, called a Phoenix” (Catechetical Lecture 18). In the fourth and fifth centuries, Church Fathers including Ambrose, Cyril of Jerusalem and Jerome were still repeating the myth, and some began offering it as a God-given proof of the reality of (Christ’s) resurrection. He spoke of it as an example of the variety and harmony to be found in God’s creation. Writing a little later, another early Church Father, Origen, also thought the pagan mythological bird might be real (see Contra Celsum 4.98). “The motif of the three days was inserted into the existing tradition by the author of the Physiologus as a means of bringing out the typological symbolism of the phoenix: the events in the life of the phoenix are meant to reflect those in the life of Christ,” says van den Broek. Its author added a new detail to the phoenix story-that the bird died and returned to life after three days. ![]() The story also featured in another piece of writing that appeared about the same time: the Physiologus, a Greek work that described real and mythical animals and outlined their allegorical significance for the developing Christian orthodoxy. Clement wrote, Tertullian (an early Latin Church Father) again used the example of the phoenix in connection with resurrection.
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Shroud of turin fake12/3/2023 Could these be traces of the blood of Jesus? Does this blood contain the DNA of God? Do they belong to the vinegar offered to Jesus before his death on the cross? One of the other clues is human blood remnants that contain a man's DNA. Bacteria that produce acetic acid (vinegar) were isolated from the Shroud. His examination of pieces of the Shroud under a microscope has revealed incredible clues that are consistent with the Scriptural accounts of the death of Jesus. Gara-Valdes's amazing discoveries do not end with this breakthrough. For those interested in the mysterious history of the Shroud, it is again possible to regard it as originating in the first century - and consequently, as being the burial cloth of Jesus. Garza-Valdes's findings because of their significance for archaeologists around the world. ![]() This coating, which the author first discovered on Mayan artifacts, so distorts the carbon dating process that objects such as the Shroud are often actually significantly older than they have been thought. Leoncio Garza-Valdes came to discover, is that an organic "bioplastic coating" is created over time on ancient textiles, textiles including the Shroud itself. ![]() What scientists did not know at that time, but what author Dr. In 1988, radiocarbon dating showed that the Shroud of Turin - long regarded as the burial cloth of Jesus - could not be from the time of Jesus but was of a more recent origin. |