Gallery The Pyre-Nest of Heliopolis |  | Interpretation of the Phoenix' mtyh: the legendary bird is here building, at twilight time, a nest of myrrh which will be his pyre.
The painting is inspired by an Herodotus tale, about an egyptian legend. According to the later, the Phoenix builds an egg in myrrh as a coffin for his father. Then he brings it to the Temple of Sun. |
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