Animal
Phoenix
Named by Agrippa among the things under the planets and signs.
1 correspondence · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located
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The oldest attribution here is Animal of Sun, first attested 1509 CE.
Animal of
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Sun
Traditional- Who says so
- Agrippan occult philosophy (1509–1533)
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1509 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet investigated
- Evidence
- The source states it
Evidence
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book I, ch. XXIII
Amongst birds, these are Solary, The Phoenix, being but one of that kind, and the Eagle, the Queen of birds, also the Vulture, the Swan, and those which sing at the rising Sun, and as it were call upon it to rise, as the Cock, Crow, also the Hawk, which because it in the Divinity of the Egyptians is an emblem of the spirit, and light, is by Porphyrius reckoned
How we shall know what Stars naturall things are under, and what things are under the Sun, which are called Solary.