The Phoenix Myth

I just heard about the phoenix. In Greek mythology the phoenix was a bird that lived in Arabia. Each morning the phoenix would awake and bathe in a well near it's roost.While it bathed, it sang a beautiful song that the sun god Apollo stopped to hear each dawn before he drove his sun chariot across the sky. According to the myth, only one phoenix existed at a time. When it grew old, the phoenix would build a nest of myrrh. The phoenix would settle it's tired aging body into the center of the nest which burst into flames when the sun rose. The phoenix would be consumed by the flames and from the ashes of the ancient bird, a new phoenix would be reborn. [I got that from a paper.]