The Bennu was known as the legendary phoenix to the Greeks. The Bennu was also considered a manifestation of the resurrected Osiris and the bird was often shown pirched in his sacred willow tree. The bennu thus was the got of time and its divisions - hours, day, night, weeks and years. It was the Bennu bird's cry at the creation of the world that marked the beginning of time. Standing alone on isolated rocks of islands of high ground during the floods the heron represented the first life to appear on the primeval mound which rose from the watery chaos at the first creation. The Bennu was also associated with the inundation of the Nile and of the creation. As a symbol of the rising and setting sun, the Bennu was also the lord of the royal jubilee. In the Late Period, the hieroglyph of the bird was used to represent this deity directly. Bennu probably derives from the word weben, meaning "rise" or "shine." The Bennu was associated with the sun and represented the ba or soul of the sun god, Re. Meaning: The Bennu was the sacred bird of Heliopolis. It had a two long feathers on the crest of it's head and was often crowned with the Atef crown of Osiris (the White Crown with two ostrich plumes on either side) or with the disk of the sun. There is some speculation that this bird may have been seen by Egyptian travelers and sparked the legend of a very large heron seen once every 500 years in Egypt.
Archaelogists have found the remains of a much larger heron that lived in the Persian Gulf area 5,000 years ago. The bird may be modeled on the gray heron ( Ardea cinera) or the larger Goliath heron ( Ardea goliath) that lives on the coast of the Red Sea. Home :: the Symbols :: Phoenix Phoenix (Bennu, Benu)Īppearance: The Bennu bird was a large imaginary bird resembling a heron.
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