Poetry – that is writing as a whole, prose is a part of the Danish "poesi" – thus is a divine creation, but its divine spark is not, as it was conceptualized in romantic aesthetics, a part of the light of creation, but of the spark, that "fell from the flaming sword of the angel" (cf. Moreover, he identifies it with poetry itself: When you were born in the garden of paradise, in its first rose, beneath the tree of knowledge, our Lord kissed you and gave you your true name – poetry! The legend tells us how he lives in Arabia and how every century he burns himself to death in his nest, but each time a new phoenix, the only one in the world, flies out from the red egg.Īndersen here locates the phoenix bird in the center of God's original creation. The bird perished in the flames, but from the red egg in the nest there flew a new bird, the only one of its kind, the one solitary phoenix bird. But when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and she and Adam were driven from paradise, a spark fell from the flaming sword of the angel into the nest of the bird and set it afire.
His plumage was beautiful, his song glorious, and his flight was like the flashing of light.
And here, in the first rose, a bird was born. In "The Phoenix Bird" the phoenix bird is connected with the garden of Paradise and with the fall of man: Beneath the tree of knowledge in the garden of paradise stood a rosebush. In 1850 Andersen published a short prose hymn called "The Phoenix Bird". When the East Wind gave her the palm-leaf message from the phoenix, her eyes sparkled with pleasure. In Andersen's tale "The Garden of Paradise" (1839) the princess in the Garden of Paradise, a fairy, who tempts the tale's prince to sin, like Eve did Adam, is very interested in hearing about the phoenix bird: Sources (both Danish): Salmonsens Konservationsleksikon, 1920, Gads Religionsleksikon, 1999. Christian monks in the middle ages employed the phoenix bird as a symbol of Christ because of its voluntary death,rebirth af death and its pure way of coming to life. This story about the phoenix bird was spread and has lasted until today. According to Artemidor the bird burned in its nest made by incense and myrrh, after which a new phoenix bird emerged from the ashes.
Ovid and Mela told that the phoenix bird built itself a nest of Incense and died in it. Later authors have developed the story about the phoenix bird. In greek sources, among others Herodot, the phoenix bird's cyclic renewal is a core theme. The bird was from time to time depicted sitting in a tree next to Osiris' coffin, thus symbolizing Osiris', the dead man's, resurrection after death. According to an Egyptian myth Osiris transformed into a phoenix bird in Heliopolis. On some of the oldest and best pictures the bird resembles a heron. According to Egyptian sources a sacred bird was occasionally seen at the temple in Heliopolis, the city of the sun god.
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