Phoenish

• 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
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake
  • Wikipedia

• 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)
  • A Finnegnas Wake Gazetteer

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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!
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

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

• 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