The phoenix is a sign of immortality, grace and beauty. This mythical creature is a bird with colorful plumage that decides its own death, building itself a nest in which the bird burns and turns to ash. Legends vary, but usually the phoenix lives for 1,000 years before building its own funeral pyre. From the remnants of the fire, a new, young phoenix emerges that will live for another 1,000 years.

The phoenix is an enduring figure from a wide variety of mythological traditions.
In ancient Egypt, the phoenix was known as a benu, associated with the rising sun and the sun god Ra. The Greeks and Romans adapted the bird, creating a new image of a peacock-like animal with a song that made the sun god Apollo stop his daily carriage of the sun. In Persian mythology, the phoenix also makes an appearance, and in Lebanese culture the phoenix is a representation of the city of Beirut, destroyed and rebuilt seven times. In Christian theology, the phoenix represents Christ's resurrection and immortality in art and literature. The phoenix is also central to Chinese and Japanese mythology.