phoenix

A bird in Egyptian mythology that lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from its ashes.

A person or thing of unsurpassed excellence or beauty; a paragon.

A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor.

A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.

Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile.