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*'''Phoenix''': the ''bennu'', a mythical Egyptian bird that rises from its own ashes → ties in with theme of life and sleep cycles, and resurrection and waking
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*'''Phoenix:''' the ''bennu'', a mythical Egyptian bird that rises from its own ashes → ties in with the theme of life and sleep cycles, and resurrection and waking
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160321&isize=M&q1=Phoenix Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160321 Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix Wikipedia]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix Wikipedia]
  
[[Category:Mythological figures]]
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* '''''Dubliners'', Ivy Day In The Committee Room:''' "Rise like Phoenix from the flames" (about '''Parnell''')
  
* Dubliners, Ivy Day In The Committee Room: "Rise like Phoenix from the flames" (about '''Parnell''')
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* '''T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (Death By Water):''' Phlebas the Phoenician
 
 
* T.S. Eliot, '''The Waste Land''' (Death By Water): Phlebas the Phoenician
 
  
 
* '''Phoenix Tavern:''' 18th Century public house on the site of the present Mullingar House (in which FW, for the most part, is set)
 
* '''Phoenix Tavern:''' 18th Century public house on the site of the present Mullingar House (in which FW, for the most part, is set)
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130301&isize=M&q1=Chapelizod A Finnegnas Wake Gazetteer]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130301 A Finnegnas Wake Gazetteer]
  
 
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* '''finish'''
  
* '''Phoenicians''': ancient Semitic people; Carthage was a Phoenician city that was utterly destroyed by Rome in the Third Punic War (148-146 B.C.); the Romans so detested the Phoenicians that they spread salt over the fields so that nothing would ever grow there again → an eighteenth-century theory held that the Irish were of Carthaginian origin!
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* '''Phoenicians:''' ancient Semitic-speaking people; Carthage was a Phoenician city that was utterly destroyed by Rome in the Third Punic War (148-146 B.C.); the Romans so detested the Phoenicians that they spread salt over the fields so that nothing would ever grow there again → an eighteenth-century theory held that the Irish were of Carthaginian origin!
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130491&isize=M&q1=Phoenix A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130491 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''Phoenix Park:''' Dublin's principal municipal park
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130492 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''phoinos (φοινος):''' (''Greek'') bloody; blood-red; blood-thirsty → red end of the rainbow → [[Rot]] ([[Page_3|FW 003.12]]) and [[rory]] ([[Page_3|FW 003.13]])
  
* '''Phoenix Park''': Dublin's principal municipal park
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* '''phoinix (φοινιξ):''' (''Greek'') phoenix; purple-red, crimson
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130492&q1=Phoenix A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
 
  
* '''''Gr'' φοινος (phoinos)''': bloody; blood-red; blood-thirsty → red end of the rainbow → [[Rot]] (003.12) and [[rory]] (003.13)
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** ''Gr'' φοινιξ (phoinix): phoenix; purple-red, crimson
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[[Category:Mythological figures]]

Revision as of 10:20, 8 November 2006

  • Phoenix: the bennu, a mythical Egyptian bird that rises from its own ashes → ties in with the theme of life and sleep cycles, and resurrection and waking
  • Dubliners, Ivy Day In The Committee Room: "Rise like Phoenix from the flames" (about Parnell)
  • T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (Death By Water): Phlebas the Phoenician
  • Phoenix Tavern: 18th Century public house on the site of the present Mullingar House (in which FW, for the most part, is set)
  • finish
  • Phoenicians: ancient Semitic-speaking people; Carthage was a Phoenician city that was utterly destroyed by Rome in the Third Punic War (148-146 B.C.); the Romans so detested the Phoenicians that they spread salt over the fields so that nothing would ever grow there again → an eighteenth-century theory held that the Irish were of Carthaginian origin!
  • phoinos (φοινος): (Greek) bloody; blood-red; blood-thirsty → red end of the rainbow → Rot (FW 003.12) and rory (FW 003.13)
  • phoinix (φοινιξ): (Greek) phoenix; purple-red, crimson