Alternatively, the new Phoenix may born directly from the ashes of its predecessor. Unlike most other mythical beings, it's not immortal, instead it lives, ages, lays one single egg and burns itself up, after which the heat of its self-cremation causes the egg to hatch. More modern depictions will take this and run with it, depicting the phoenix as an Endangered Species, with the single specimen often being the Last of Its Kind. Traditionally this is not a species there is usually only one Phoenix (video games and other modern fantasy works may beg to differ, but that's another story). At a certain time, the Phoenix would make a nest of cinnamon sticks, and then self-immolate, burning to ashes, from which a new Phoenix was born. The Phoenix of the Phoenician myth was an immortal bird that could regenerate from any injury. It's portrayed as a magnificent bird with a plumage of fiery colors and also with fiery powers or in some stories, a bird actually made of living flames. The Phoenix is an ancient and well known symbol of death and rebirth and is an idea that is found all over Asia and Europe.
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