%0 Journal Article
%T Acerca del Ave F¨¦nix en las tradiciones isl¨¢micas
%A Buend¨ªa
%A Pedro
%J Al-Qantara : Revista de Estudios Arabes
%D 2011
%I Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient¨ªficas
%X In Western cultural milieus it has been customary to identify the Arabian legend of the giant bird  Anq¨¡  Mugrib as a version of the mythical Phoenix known from Greco-Latin sources. Linking these two together is based almost exclusively on the Phoenix supposedly coming from Arabia. However, a detailed analysis of the sources clearly shows that the two myths are essentially different, and describe two birds that are completely divergent in shape, mythical development and textual significance. Although the  Anq¨¡  has merged in some texts with the myth of the Phoenix, because of its long life, Arab and Persian literature also speak of a bird known as qaqnus which has essentially the same characteristics as the one in the Greco-Latin myth of the Phoenix. The qaqnus bird, in addition, is usually mentioned as another bird along with the  Anq¨¡ , making clear that it is different and separate from this. En medios culturales occidentales, ha sido costumbre identificar la leyenda ¨¢rabe del ave gigante  Anq¨¡  Mugrib con el mito del ave F¨¦nix tal y como se conoce en las fuentes grecolatinas. Dicha identificaci¨®n se basa casi exclusivamente en la presunta procedencia del F¨¦nix de Arabia. Sin embargo, un detallado an¨¢lisis de los textos muestra de forma clara que ambos mitos son esencialmente diferentes y describen a dos aves que formal y estructuralmente son completamente distintas. Aunque la leyenda de la  Anq¨¡  se contamina en algunos textos con el mito de la vetusta edad del F¨¦nix, las literaturas ¨¢rabe y persa conocen un ave llamada qaqnus cuyas caracter¨ªsticas concuerdan esencialmente con las del mito grecolatino del F¨¦nix. Esta ave qaqbus adem¨¢s, suele ser mencionada como un ave diferente y aparte de la  Anq¨¡ .
%K Anq¨¡
%K Anq¨¡  Mugrib
%K Phoenix
%K S¨©murg: S¨©morg
%K Rukhkh
%K Rukh
%K griffin
%K qaqnus
%K swan
%K mythological birds
%K imaginary zoology
%K paradoxography
%K comparative mythology
%K Anq¨¡
%K Anq¨¡  Mugrib
%K ave F¨¦nix
%K S¨©murg: S¨©morg
%K Rujj
%K Roc
%K grifo
%K qaqnus
%K cisne
%K aves mitol¨®gicas
%K zoolog¨ªa fant¨¢stica
%K paradoxograf¨ªa
%K mitolog¨ªa comparada
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