Atlanta from the Ashes (The Phoenix) Atlanta from the Ashes (The Phoenix) Atlanta from the Ashes, more commonly known as The Phoenix, is a bronze monument located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, symbolizing Atlanta's rise from the ashes of the Civil War to become a world city. The sculpture, dedicated in 1969, depicts a woman being lifted from flames by a phoenix, in reference to the phoenix of Egyptian mythology that was consumed by fire and rose from the ashes, just as Atlanta rose from the ashes after the city's infrastructure was burned by William T. Sherman's Union Army during the Civil War. The female figure
Strix (mythology) Europe. "Strega" (obviously derived from Latin "striga") is the Italian term for "witch", and in Romanian "strigăt" means 'scream', "strigoaică" is the name of the Romanian feminine vampire, and "strigoi "is the Romanian male vampire. Both can scream loudly, especially when they become poltergeists—a trait they have in common with the banshees. "Strigăt" is also the Romanian name of the barn owl and of the death's-head hawkmoth. Primary sources Secondary sources Strix (mythology) The strix (plural striges or strixes), in the mythology of classical antiquity, was a bird of ill omen, the product of metamorphosis, that fed on human flesh