Additionally, the city could save $50,000 each year by standardizing its stationery, patches, signs and business forms.Ī citizen's committee was appointed to organize a design competition for a new graphic symbol for the city. In the fall of 1986, the city decided to establish a more contemporary, unified graphics program to present a clear image to the public, including having one phoenix bird symbol represent the city. Many departments designed their own unique bird, which they displayed on municipal signs, stationery, city vehicles and employee uniforms. Over the years, Phoenix had more than 30 birds connected with the city. In Egypt, it was usually depicted as a heron, but in classic literature as a peacock or an eagle. It embalmed the ashes of its predecessor in an egg of myrrh and flew with it to Heliopolis, the "city of the sun," where the egg was deposited on the altar of the sun god. The bird then was consumed by the flames.Ī new phoenix sprang forth from the pyre. Only one phoenix exists at a time, and so when the bird felt its death was near, every 500 to 1,461 years, it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it on fire. Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sing a beautiful song while it bathed in the well. The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death, and in ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology it is associated with the sun god.Īccording to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. We also invite you to visit our City History webpage for more information about our city was created, or contact the Communications Office at 262-7177. Read more about that process on this page.
As a result, the Phoenix bird became the official city symbol. The city of Phoenix was given its name by its founders because it had sprung from from the ruins of a former civilization that had vanished into history.
0 kommentar(er)
