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
Roc (mythology) (where it is depicted as a two-headed condor), and the 2003 animated film "", where it instead resembles snowy owl but with claws on its wings like a hoatzin. Other large mythic birds include: Roc (mythology) The roc (from "ruḵ ("also "rukh" or "rux")) is an enormous legendary bird of prey in the popular mythology of the Middle East. The roc appears in Arabic geographies and natural history, popularized in Arabian fairy tales and sailors' folklore. Ibn Battuta tells of a mountain hovering in the air over the China Seas, which was the roc. The popular story collection "One Thousand