In the Far East, by the uttermost point of the earth, where the Dawn Gateway is always open, there is the land of everlasting happiness. In that country, there is a wonderful grove, and only one bird, Phoenix by name, lives in that grove. When Aurora paints the Arch scarlet and golden, the miraculous bird starts singing to greet the dawn of a new day, and no other song in the world compares to the one sung by Phoenix in the rays of the rising sun. That bird lives for one thousand years and then it burns down to rise from the ashes…
This Secular Bird made of gold and ebony and bejeweled with precious sapphires is a symbol of the immortality, revival, and eternal renewal.