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According to Herodotus, the Egyptians too had a revered bird, the Phoenix, which according to the citizens of Heliopolis could be rarely seen and only appears at intervals of say some five hundred years. It also regularly showed up when its father passed away and if to go by the size and character of the bird as depicted in the paintings, the bird resembled like an eagle and its feathers were golden and red in colour. According to the Egyptians, the bird carries his father departing from Arabia and arrives at the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis, with his father being plastered up in myrrh (a scented gum resin derived from different trees in Arabia and Africa). There the bird buries his father. The bird first creates an egg first made of myrrh, which it will be able able to carry. After creating such an egg, it carries out number of attempts to make sure that whether it will be able to carry it or not. After sufficient trials the egg is hollowed in section and his father is put inside it. The hollowed egg is again plastered by myrrh and the egg weighs same as before according to the Egyptians. Finally, the egg is then transported across whole of Egypt to the temple of the Sun and buried there by the Phoenix.

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