Similarly, it is asserted that a phoenix can heal a person with its tears, and even temporarily make them immune to death. The bird was also said to regenerate when wounded, essentially making it immortal and invincible.
In some legends, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, the "City of the Sun". The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self and the creature is also associated with fire, justice, obedience, and fidelity. An androgynous creature, it was also associated with Yin femininity, the moon, and the earth, as opposed to the dragon, which represented Yang masculinity, the sun, and the sky. In Chinese mythology, the phoenix, also known as fenghuang, is one of the four Sacred Creatures, the other three being the dragon, the qilin, and the turtle. Both nest and bird burn and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. It is a radiant bird with a tail of gold and red plumage, or purple and blue, by some sources, and has a 500 to 1,000 year life cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of myrrh twigs that it eventually ignites.
The phoenix, or benu, is a mythical sacred firebird which originated in many ancient mythologies, including Egyptian, Phoenician, Greek, Indian, Persian, Roman, and Chinese, among others. The Fire Nation crafted a large platform with a depiction of a phoenix for Ozai's coronation as Phoenix King.
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