--- Matthew Klahn <mklahn at mac.com> wrote: > Sorry, small nitpick: > > On Mar 22, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Sean Whalen wrote: > > --- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: This line should be deleted. > > I've argued before that there can be more than > one > > Emperor per reign (and that there is only one > Phoenix > > Reign per cycle, almost always taken by a decadent > > Phoenix). > > An incoming Phoenix emperor would be ascending > phoenix who then sinks > into decay. It is suggested by the poem and by > Tortaalik (I gave the > textev for this before, but I'm not on my normal > computer, so I don't > have the sent mail to refer to. It's, I think, in > Ch. 6 of FHYA) that > every Phoenix emperor/empress will become decadent > by the end of > his/her reign. Ascending? Is this term ever used or are you describing what a Phoenix is like before becoming decadent? Yes, I did mean that every Phoenix Emperor has become decadent before the end of his reign. Zerika I and Zerika IV are the only ones who didn't and they're called reborn Phoenixes. As far as I can remember all the others are called decadent Phoenixes when discussed, even if they weren't like that at the beginning (the all-seeing eye of history, and all that). __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html