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The Egyptian Bennu (Ti-bennu = phoenix) may have been a reminiscence of gigantic pterodactyls and other winged monsters.
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Which meant he'd thought she hadn't known the bennu hieroglyph from that of a ba - a depiction of the Egyptian soul by a bird's body with a human head.
From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982
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Phoenix, for so Peter had dubbed the haggard in memory of his and Jenny's first discussion of the bennu hieroglyph in the Egyptian Museum, had known the ecstasy of freedom and had a look about her that definitely said she preferred the wild to captivity.
From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982
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He could repudiate the purchase of a slave attacked by the _bennu_ sickness within the month (later, a hundred days), and had a female slave three days on approval.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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The Egyptian Bennu (Ti-bennu = phoenix) may have been a reminiscence of gigantic pterodactyls and other winged monsters.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Sylw (Gei di ddefnyddio tagiau HTML i bennu arddull)
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Sylw (Gallwch ddefnyddio tagiau HTML i bennu arddull)
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Sylw (Gallwch ddefnyddio tagiau HTML i bennu arddull)
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Sylw (Gallwch ddefnyddio tagiau HTML i bennu arddull)
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Sylw (Gei di ddefnyddio tagiau HTML i bennu arddull)
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jaime_d commented on the word bennu
From "Haile Selassie Funeral Train" by Guy Davenport.
January 19, 2010