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One of the most mysterious myths of ancient Egypt was the legend of the Phoenix. Rundle Clark in explains the relationship of the bennu bird to the phoenix and the symbolism it was intended to invoke.

Clark: “One has to imagine a perch extending out of the waters of the Abyss. On it rests a grey heron, the herald of all things to come. It opens its beak and breaks the silence of the primeval night with the call of life and destiny, which ‘determines what is and what is not to be’…

The Phoenix, therefore, embodies the original the Word (or Logos) or declaration of destiny which mediates between the divine-mind and created things…In a sense, when the phoenix gave out the primeval call it initiated all those [calendrical] cycles, so it is the patron of all divisions of time, and its temple at Heliopolis became the centre of calendrical regulation.”

This confirms what we suspected, that the notion of the phoenix is closely related to the Great Pyramid as the epoch and timekeeper of pharaonic kingship, both mystical and historical. The shafts from the King’s and Queen’s chambers are calendrical in that they point toward specific stars and fixed their processional and other cycles.

There is therefore a link between the phoenix and the pyramid as timekeepers of the stars of Orion and, by extension, the ’soul’ of the Osiris-kings. In the Book of the Dead (Chapter 17) the question is asked: ‘Who is he? . . . I am the great phoenix which is in Heliopolis . . .’

The phoenix, according to Rundle Clark, was a great cosmic bird (UFO?) which came from a distant magical land beyond this world; a place called the Isle of fire. it was a place of eternal light far beyond the limits of what was known. It was the place where gods were born and from where they were sent to this world.

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