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FAWKES! You've come back!

It looks more like a rooster (a Sriracha) than a phoenix to me.

I guess that's where the 'rising' comes from...

Sriracha-A-DOODLE-DOOOOOOOO!

i thought it was a rooster

I can't believe someone beat me to the Fawkes joke! LOL.

Is being a Harry Potter fan a good enough reason to buy this shirt?

Beautiful. Love the placement.

Hawt design miss m.!

Yay! MissMonster T-shirt!

SailorButterfly wrote:Beautiful. Love the placement.

If it prints like the comp shows, it's really really far over.

This looks a lot like the phoenix rising shirt I have already....

Edit- Here's the shirt: http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k=3743 Ya, pretty similar, same color, this one is more "chickeny" and goes the other way. I like mine better.

Thank you for saving me another ten dollars, Woot. Too bad all the other tee sites have good shirts I keep spending my money on. If it were Woot alone, I'd be quite rich by now.

Does anyone know how many phoenix shirts woot has printed?

I'd get this shirt, but there's a good chance it'd just get retconned into a split-personality disorder, or a clone, or something else that's only gonna make my head hurt ...

Reminds me of Harry Potter.

Why is there blood dripping off the right wing (left side of the print)?

He looks more like a griffin covered in Tabasco sauce.

Fun fact, the phoenix originated in Greek Mythology, but is also found later in Phoenician and the Egyptian myths.


Of course, all the little ones these days think it started with Harry Potter...

::SIGH::

lovethatfusion wrote:I can't believe someone beat me to the Fawkes joke! LOL.

Is being a Harry Potter fan a good enough reason to buy this shirt?

it is for me! 1 phoenix shirt please.

I'll wear it to opening night for the new movie and be cool. super cool. as cool as you can be watching harry potter at midnight. that cool.

This resembles myself when I wake up in the morning!

mcwoot42 wrote:Does anyone know how many phoenix shirts woot has printed?

I bet woot has printed tons of phoenix shirts because these creatures just keep on coming back!

lovethatfusion wrote:I can't believe someone beat me to the Fawkes joke! LOL.

Is being a Harry Potter fan a good enough reason to buy this shirt?

You know, on the book on tape, the guy says "Forks" so for the longest time I thought Fawkes' name was Forks. Until I actually read one of the books. Boy, was I embarrassed.

I'm intrigued... but it may be a little much to pull off, in terms of placement...

This shirt is officially my 74th shirt.woot shirt and it hasn't even been a year since my first purchase. Keep the good shirts coming, only bought 3-4 shirts since February


Also, lets not forget that the Phoenix is a mythological creature, so it's up to the artist to interpret how the creature should look. I find this shirt to be a fascinating interpretation of the Phoenix and more realistic than others I have seen. Everything seems realistic while still maintaining a mythological mysteriousness around the bird itself. One of the shirts that has more meaning in the interpretation than what you are actually seeing. Very interesting and is the reason I bought it so fast!

This shirt was like, "YES INSTANT BUY!"... and then I see that there's at least one pink hue. What are the chances that it'll come out looking like it does on the comp instead of a pink freak of ink nature.

imsochady wrote:I bet woot has printed tons of phoenix shirts because these creatures just keep on coming back!

Technically none of these phoenix shirts that are printed depict phoenixes. There is only ONE phoenix, so the very act of producing more than one of this shirt disqualifies it from being an actual phoenix.

Or something.

The phoenix is one of my favourite creatures but I don't yet have a phoenix shirt... this one isn't quite enough to get me to purchase. I really do like it though.

Did anyone else notice that the description says the alignment is on the left, but it certainly looks like it's on the right in the image?

What this shirt tells the world, is that a song lyric?

I just realized I probably worded that badly.

prateeko wrote:Fun fact, the phoenix originated in Greek Mythology, but is also found later in Phoenician and the Egyptian myths.


Of course, all the little ones these days think it started with Harry Potter...

::SIGH::

There are many theories and depending on where you look for your information, you can find differing opinions. This is from the BBC "Although the legend of the phoenix began in Egypt, its influence spread throughout the ancient world and references to similar creatures are found in Chinese, Arabic and Greek history. The name 'phoenix' was actually given by the Greeks and is the most common name for the creature today. However, the Egyptians, who founded the legend, named it the 'Bennu Bird'. In China it was known as 'Phuong' or 'Si Ling' and in Arabia it was called the 'Roc'."

eHalcyon wrote:Technically none of these phoenix shirts that are printed depict phoenixes. There is only ONE phoenix, so the very act of producing more than one of this shirt disqualifies it from being an actual phoenix.

Or something.

The phoenix is one of my favourite creatures but I don't yet have a phoenix shirt... this one isn't quite enough to get me to purchase. I really do like it though.

High five, smarty pants!

Call me ignorant, but I was unaware of the vibrant purple tailfeathers of the phoenix. learn something new every day

Kex wrote:Call me ignorant, but I was unaware of the vibrant purple tailfeathers of the phoenix. learn something new every day

I know! And they're rainbow too! Like Rainbow Brite!

The instant my browser refreshed, I thought "Fire Swallower", my favorite, and first, Woot shirt.

This, however, is no Fire Swallower replacement...even though mine has several holes, I will continue to wear it until it falls in ashes from my torso and rises again to cover my modesty.

If you are going to own only one shirt depicting the capital of Arizona, THIS is the one to own.

Which makes me wonder...why is their football team, in the city named after the fiercest of all birds, named after a wuss bird like a cardinal?

thejakeyl88 wrote:There are many theories and depending on where you look for your information, you can find differing opinions. This is from the BBC "Although the legend of the phoenix began in Egypt, its influence spread throughout the ancient world and references to similar creatures are found in Chinese, Arabic and Greek history. The name 'phoenix' was actually given by the Greeks and is the most common name for the creature today. However, the Egyptians, who founded the legend, named it the 'Bennu Bird'. In China it was known as 'Phuong' or 'Si Ling' and in Arabia it was called the 'Roc'."

It was always my impression that the Roc is a different creature altogether. There's also simurgh, ziz, garuda... basically what you could do is play any Final Fantasy game and wait until you run into a giant bird creature. There are several varieties and they are all named after actual mythological birds.

The Phoenix is by far my favorite creature, mythological or not (just look at my username), so when I saw this, I just knew I had to get it. This is the second Phoenix shirt from shirt.woot I've bought. Shirt.woot rocks!!

er... isnt this like another woot shirt released a while back? I think one I own...

Salute, though. Not many creative people in Chicago any more, just the weirdos that try to shock and call it "art". Nice seeing this piece and to know it's from my area.

ambergreen wrote:The instant my browser refreshed, I thought "Fire Swallower", my favorite, and first, Woot shirt.

This, however, is no Fire Swallower replacement...even though mine has several holes, I will continue to wear it until it falls in ashes from my torso and rises again to cover my modesty.

That's good or bad depending on if you're a boy or a girl. But I agree, this shirt in no way compares to Fire Swallower, though I wouldn't have bought that one either.

phoenix713 wrote:The Phoenix is by far my favorite creature, mythological or not...

I'm kinda partial to Megan Fox.

eHalcyon wrote:It was always my impression that the Roc is a different creature altogether. There's also simurgh, ziz, garuda... basically what you could do is play any Final Fantasy game and wait until you run into a giant bird creature. There are several varieties and they are all named after actual mythological birds.

Yeah, I used to play Heroes of Might and Magic, and they had a "Roc" as a creature you could employ in your army if you were a Wizard. It looked NOTHING like a Phoenix. It looked more like a red tailed hawk in the game. But also in the game was a Phoenix that you could get if you were a Sorcerer, so maybe they made them differently for that reason.

Funny you mentioned Final Fantasy, as this shirt kind of reminded me of those awesome times when I summoned the Phoenix. What a powerful creature.


Either way, the fact that most of the advanced civilizations from the ancient world had a mystical bird in their stories, history or even religiously interpreted. It seems the bird itself is a front for something much more involving.