Interdasting.
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"The Greeks wrote of a certain Kyknos who was the son of Apollo and of Hyria, that is to say, of the Sun and the Land of the Sun. Hyria is but another form of Syria, so we again encounter the “Sacred Island”, and it would be surprising indeed if the swan were not to be met in some form or other.
The joint consideration of the figures of Hamsa and Garuda is also quite in order, since they can be found united in a single bird. In such cases one cannot but suspect the first beginnings of the heraldic two-headed eagle, even though this creature appears rather as a double Garuda, for the Hamsa-Garuda would, of course, have the heads of a swan and an eagle."
"However, it must be said that the Phoenicians did inhabit the historical i.e., real, geographical Syria. Could the name of the people have been the subject of a transference similar to that of the name of the country?
What makes this idea more or less credible is the connection of primitive Syria with the symbolism of the Phoenix; in fact, according to Josephus, the capital of primitive Syria was “Heliopolis”, the “City of the Sun,” whose name was given at a later date to the Egyptian town of On.
It is to the first Heliopolis, and not to the one in Egypt, that the circle symbolism of the Phoenix and its re-births really should be attributed."