Risen

Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.

I'm seven times seventy,

Plus a decade more.

This has all happened before.

Red and gold, I am no liar.

My nursery will be made

From my funeral pyre.

Who am I?

(Scoll Down for Solution)

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Hint:

I'm a mythical creature.

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Solution

The phoenix!

The phoenix, in mythology, is a fabulous bird that periodically regenerated itself, used in literature as a symbol of death and resurrection. According to legend, the phoenix lived in Arabia; when it reached the end of its life (500 years), it burned itself on a pyre of flames, and from the ashes a new phoenix arose. As a sacred symbol in Egyptian religion, the phoenix represented the sun, which dies each night and rises again each morning. According to Herodotus, the bird was red and golden and resembled an eagle.