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| − | * | + | *'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix 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! | ||
| + | ** [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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| + | * '''Phoenix Park''': Dublin's principal municipal park | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130492&q1=Phoenix A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
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| + | * '''''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 | ||
Revision as of 11:54, 19 June 2006
- Phoenix: mythical Egyptian bird that rises from its own ashes → ties in with theme of life and sleep cycles, and resurrection and waking
- 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!
- Phoenix Park: Dublin's principal municipal park
