There is only one at a time. When the old bird burns, the new one is born from the residue. It rolls the father’s ashes into an egg and flies that egg to the Temple of the Sun in Heliopolis.
The Phoenix does not "pass away." It does not retire. It does not take a sabbatical. According to the classical texts (Herodotus, Ovid, Pliny the Elder), the Phoenix lives for 500, 1,461, or even 12,994 years—depending on the myth. When its body finally succumbs to time, there is no slow decay. There is no funeral. phoenixes no meme
That is the Phoenix. No meme. No mercy. Just the brutal, beautiful, lonely cycle of destruction and renewal. There is only one at a time