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Athena vs Phoenix - What's the difference?

athena | phoenix |

As proper nouns the difference between athena and phoenix

is that athena is the goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva while Phoenix is a mythical firebird; especially the sacred one from ancient Egyptian mythology.

As a noun phoenix is

a mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.

athena

English

(wikipedia Athena)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (Greek god) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (Eternal Virgin Goddesses) Minerva, Artemis/Diana, Hestia/Vesta

    Derived terms

    * Athena Polias * Athens

    Anagrams

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    phoenix

    English

    (wikipedia phoenix)

    Alternative forms

    * phenix, , pheonix

    Noun

  • (mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
  • (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile.
    • Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.
  • (mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies.

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