Historical Examples

• With the cultus of the Bennu at Heliopolis is connected the story of the phœnix.

  The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI)

  Max Duncker

• He also "taketh the character of the god Bennu, with the head of a crane," and as Sokar Osiris has the head of a hawk.

  Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2)

  Andrew Lang

• The inscriptions say of the great Bennu that "it was self-begotten," that "it caused the divisions of time to arise."

  The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI)

  Max Duncker

• Another bird held in great reverence was the bennu, a bird of the heron species which gave rise to the mythical bird, the phnix.

  Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt

  Lewis Spence