What is really behind the story of Phoenix, the bird of immortality, the bird that rises from the ashes?

In ancient Egypt, the Phoenix was called the "Lord of Jubilees" and was considered to be the ba (spirit) of the Sun God Ra. In Mesopotamia, the Phoenix symbolized by the horned and winged solar disk. Alchemists used the Phoenix to symbolize the color red and the successful end of a process.

Tradition says that the Phoenix fed only on-air, harming no other creature. It lived a solitary life in a far-away land, coming to human-inhabited land only when it was ready to die. If the bird was injured it possessed the power to heal itself.

When the Phoenix reaches the end of his life, it sets the nest and itself on fire and is burned to ashes. Shortly, the Phoenix rises again and begins its life anew.

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