The Phoenix
The
Milcham
Jewish Origin
The
Milcham
Jewish Origin
At the very beginning of time, shortly after God had created the earth, Eve sinned and ate of the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Adam sinned shortly after her in the same manner, and because they were no longer immortal, Adam and Eve grew very jealous of the animals, which were still immortal. And so they set out to get all the animals to eat of the fruit of the forbidden tree, and thus share in their humiliation and disgrace. Adam and Eve were very wily and coercive and soon every animal had been fooled into eating of the fruit of the forbidden tree; all animals except one that is.
The Milcham, a bird much like an eagle, alone, did not eat of the fruit of the tree, and God rewarded him by putting him in a walled city to live in peace for a thousand years. No matter how much the other animals tried, they could not get in to tempt the Milcham. And so God continued to bless the Milcham, and at the end of a thousand years, the bird was consumed by fire so that another could be born from an egg that was found in its ashes. And so it has happened every thousand years since then. Though no animal or human knows where the city is, the Milcham lives on, forever.