Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece
There appear to be no distinctly angelic beings in Egyptian mythology, although there is the sacred phoenix which was the symbol of immortality. The phoenix represents the Sun, which dies each night and rises again each morning.
At the end of its life cycle the phoenix builds a pyre of cinnamon twigs, which it ignites, burning itself to ashes from which the new bird emerges. The new phoenix embalms the ashes of the old one in an egg made of myrrh which it deposits in Heliopolis, located in Egypt.
Originally the phoenix was a stork or heron-like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead; it is closely associated with the Sun-god Amun-Ra. Religion in ancient Egypt was a very important part of everyday life. Daily, the priests attended to the images of their gods (who were thought to be manifest in the image). The Egyptian gods and goddesses often had animal heads; Anubis, the jackal-headed god of the dead, is an example. Though the Egyptians had many deities, only a few appear to have wings; Isis on one occasion used her wings to breathe life into her dead husband-brother Osiris and to conceive Horus. The goddess Nut was portrayed as a woman with a pot on her head with vulture wings, or a woman covered in stars, bending over the Earth.
Greek angels
The word daemon in ancient Greek meant an inspiring spirit.
The Goddess Nike and her son Eros served as angelic images for later depictions of angels.
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