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An 8 page paper. The focus of this paper is women who become divorced in midlife years and using the concept of the rising phoenix as a spiritual metaphor for their recovery. The paper begins by discussing the myth of the phoenix and its meaning in ancient Egypt and in the early days of Christianity. The phoenix rises anew from the ashes of destruction, destruction that is of its own making. The writer discuses and describes how the symbolism of the mythical phoenix can be applied to women who suddenly become single in their middle age years. The paper also comments on the effects of such a divorce on young and adult children as well as the negative consequences of midlife divorce on the woman's health. The paper leads up to concluding the concept of the mythical phoenix can be used as a spiritual metaphor for these women. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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is used to denote a person or object that possesses unsurpassed excellence or beauty (The American Heritage(r) Dictionary of the English Language, 2000). Of course a dictionary can only
offer the briefest of definitions or explanations for any word or term. To fully understand the phoenix and the concept of phoenix rising, we must turn to the storytellers of
old. Before print was created, legends and myths were passed from generation to generation by the clans or tribes storyteller (Whitehouse 1998). The phoenix can be found in ancient Egyptian,
Greek, Arabic, and Chinese mythology and American Indians have their own version of the phoenix, which is the thunderbird (Whitehouse 1998). As with so many mythological symbols, there are different
versions of this myth as well as a number of layers different interpretations of the concept of the phoenix (Whitehouse 1998). To the ancient Egyptians, the phoenix was a large
and wondrous Arabian bird that had "brilliant scarlet and gold plumage and a melodious cry" (Lady Gryphons Mythical Realm, 2002). The myth goes on to explain that only one phoenix
could live on earth at a time and it lives for approximately 500 years (Lady Gryphons Mythical Realm, 2002). When the phoenix began to feel old and weak, it would
gather spices and aromatic branches, make a fire and immolate itself in the fragrant flames (Lady Gryphons Mythical Realm, 2002; Whitehouse 1998). After three days, a new phoenix would rise
from the ashes, restored to youth, to live another five hundred years (Lady Gryphons Mythical Realm, 2002). The new phoenix would then embalm its predecessor in an "egg of
myrrh and fly with the ashes to Heliopolis, the City of the Sun in Egypt," where it deposited the ashes "on the altar of the temple of the Egyptian god
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