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The Phoenix could variously symbolize renewal in general as well as the sun, time, the Empire, metempsychosis, consecration, resurrection, life in the heavenly Paradise, Christ, Mary, virginity, the exceptional man, and certain aspects of Christian life - from The Nuremberg Chronicle, book by Hartmann Schedel, 1493.
- من كتاب تاريخ نورنبيرج، بقلم هارتمان شيدل، 1493 م.
