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The Greek historian [[Herodotus]], writing about Egyptian customs and traditions in the fifth century BC, wrote that the people at Heliopolis described the "phoenix" to him. 紀元前5世紀、ギリシャの歴史家ヘロドトスは、エジプトの風習や伝統について書き、ヘリオポリスの人々が「フェニックス」のことを説明したと書いている。    They said it lived for 500 years before dying, resuscitating, building a funerary egg with [[myrrh]] for the paternal corpse, and carrying it to the temple of the Sun at Heliopolis.<ref name="Lecocq">{{cite journal |last=Lecocq |first=Françoise |title=L’œuf du phénix. Myrrhe, encens et cannelle dans le mythe du phénix |journal=Schedae |volume=6 |issue=1: L‘animal et le savoir, de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance |year=2009 |pages=73–106 |url=http://www.unicaen.fr/puc/images/preprint0172009.pdf |access-date=2016-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174320/http://www.unicaen.fr/puc/images/preprint0172009.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His description of the phoenix likens it to an eagle with red and gold plumage, reminiscent of the sun.<ref name="Wilkinson"/>