Phoenish

• Phoenix: 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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• 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!
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Phoenix Park: Dublin's principal municipal park
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Gr φοινος (phoinos): bloody; blood-red; blood-thirsty → red end of the rainbow → Rot (003.12) and rory (003.13)
  • Gr φοινιξ (phoinix): phoenix; purple-red, crimson