Glossary / Lexicon
Phoenix
Phoenix refers to a person or thing of unparalleled beauty or excellence; a person or thing that has regenerated or rejuvenated after a great misfortune.
The word Phoenix is after a fabulous bird of great beauty in Egyptian mythology which lived to 500 years and burned itself on a funeral pyre to be born again from the ashes.
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