A Phoenix in the sky over Norway

The solar wind velocity in the vicinity of the Earth these days is over 600 km/s. he was the reason for the incredible auroras over Norway. According to the photographer Adrian Modui who made this magical picture of the island of Senja on 11 November, huge pillars of light took the form of a fiery bird.

Aurora in the sky really reminds of the Phoenix, which spread vast wings over the mountain peaks.

Phoenix — mythological bird that has the gift to be reborn from the ashes. It is mentioned in the myths of different cultures, where it is often associated with sun worship. Phoenix foresees its own demise, and therefore burns itself in a nest formed out of the ashes comes the chick, or, in another version, the Phoenix.

For the first time on Phoenix mentions Herodotus in the 5th century BC — although he did not write about the self-immolation and rebirth, but mentioned that the Phoenix buries its parent, which lives 500 years, the temple of the Sun God in Peopole in Egypt. Himself a historian skeptical of the myth.

His opinion is partially shared by Tacitus, who, however, gives evidence of observations of the arrival of the Phoenix in Egypt in the year 35 BC. According to his version, the Phoenix brings posterity only once in 500 years and then dies.

Subsequently, many authors of antiquity have been included in the myth of self-immolation, and Claudian at the end of the 4th century ad in his poems wrote about immortal bird, "the heiress myself."

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»