Phoenix
The phoenix, depicted as a double-headed eagle, is a pun-animal which was likely written like פן-נקז ˁp-nqz in the Semitic languages. This means “double-beak”, and puns with פן-נכס pn-nks, which means “exchange-wealth”, i.e. banking. The phoenix was thus a pun on “turning” & “doubling”, complemented with other aspects where it “re-turned” to Egypt, or “re-turned” to life.
Double-headed “eagle” of Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaiologos,
very phoenix-like with long neck and exaggerated tail feathers.
Double-headed eagle as phoenix
Miles famously deduced that the double-headed eagle is in fact a phoenix. He discerned it from the preternaturally long neck, and from the two heads which are found in the Chinese phoenix.
The fact that the double-headed eagle is equivalent to a phoenix seems to be a half-open, but blackwashed secret. Hundreds of spooky books on mysticism and faux truther sites on freemasonry name the famous double-headed eagle as a phoenix. As far as official heraldry goes, I only found the crest of the USS Makin Island: “From a wreath Argent and Azure a double-headed phoenix of the like rising from flames Proper”.
However, I can now not only confirm Miles’ judgment, but also explain:
- why a phoenix must be a bird
- why it must be specifically an eagle or heron
- why it must have a long neck
- why it must be double-headed
- why it must return to life
The reason is that all these features are pronounced “phoenix” in Phoenician. The phoenix is a Punic multi-pun!
The punny phoenix
Every aspect of the phoenix is pronounced something like “phoenix” in Phoenician, and the Semitic languages in general. Some even work in other languages, such as Egyptian or even English. Try to read the transliterations aloud, and everytime it sounds like “phoenix”, you win a punny point!
The prefix pn means “turning” & “curving”, in Phoenician and nearly every other language. If anything with a K-ish name is turned, you get a “phoenix”.
The phoenix must have a curved beak, because “curved beak” is written פן-נקז pn-nqz in Phoenician, like “phoenix”.
The phoenix must have a long & wound neck, because “wound neck” is written פן-אנק pn-ˁnq in Phoenician, like “phoenix”. Even in English, saying “wound neck” still sounds a bit like “phoenix”. In Egyptian, this would be bn-ḫḫ.
The phoenix must be double-headed, because it must be double-necked & double-beaked. In Phoenician, “double neck” would be written עף-אנק ˁp-ˁnq and “double beak” as עף-נקז ˁp-nqz, like “phoenix”.
The phoenix may also have two heads, because that is a depiction of turning the neck left & right. In Phoenician, “turning the neck” would be the same as a “curved neck”, and written פן-אנק pn-ˁnq, like “phoenix”.
The phoenix must return to life, because “return to life” is written פן-חי pn-ḥy in Phoenician, like “phoenix”. In Egyptian, this would be pn-ˤnḫ, for the Ankh.
The phoenix must be a bird, because several real birds had names similar to “phoenix”: Eagles & vultures were named pnˀ in Aramaic, for their curved beaks. The heron was named bnw in Egyptian, for its curved neck.
I am not yet sure why the phoenix burns itself. It may be a pun with “return to burn”, written פן-כו pn-kw, like “phoenix”.
But I am dead sure why the spooks love the phoenix symbol: The phoenix puns with פן-נכס pn-nks for “exchange of wealth”, with פן-אנך pn-ˀnk for “exchange of tin” (as in Phoenicians). It also puns with פן-קשט pn-qšṭ for “bending the truth” (Greek phenax). All these are features of the cryptocrats, but written & pronounced similar to “phoenix”.
I also think that’s why so many spooks have themselves portrayed in profile, brandishing their noses to look extra-curvy: The phoenix puns with אף-נקז ˀp-nqz for “beaker nose”!
Aramaic pn = turn, return; ˁp = double
Aramaic nqz = beak; ˁnq = neck; ḥy = alive; kwy = burn
Double-headed phoenix as a symbol for trade
The double-headed eagle or phoenix was especially important in the regions that connected Asia & Europe. It has been the symbol of Russia, Serbia, Albania, Byzantium, down to the Ancient Hittite empire.
Hittite relief of double-headed eagle
inside of Alaca Höyük sphinx gate
The double-headed Hittite eagle on the sphinx gate in Alaca Höyük near Hattusa is especially interesting, because the fortifications are dated to th 13th and 14th century BC. That is well before the alleged fall of the Hittite empire in the Late Bronze Age Collapse, typically dated to “around 1180 BC”. If both datings are correct (and I’m not so sure either one is), then the symbolism of the Old Hittite empire was already ripe with spook punnery. This would then mean that the Old Hittite elites were already globalized spooks, and thus not victims of the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
But the punny trail has to end somewhere. the Scottish freemasons named their phoenix “Eagle of Lagash”, in an attempt to go even further. Now Lagash did use lion-headed eagles as symbols, as seen on a Girsu relief and the vase of Entemena. But that creature has no beak, no long neck, and just a single head, and is therefore no phoenix. If it really was a pun, it was likely a very different one, in Sumerian. My guess is the mason spooks just randomly picked the oldest pagan eagle motif they knew of, to appear as mystic & Satanistic as possible. Since phenax means “fraud”, they did in this sense “pull a phoenix” as well.
