Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25237036-20141112045053/@comment-6383956-20150718051404

Eddie Hale wrote: It does look like Pheonix, given  what his function may be at the nemeton I am assuming and speculating that it's to power up the tree somehow. Hopefully they surprise us and go in another direction but I am betting that whatever he is, it ties into rebirth since he's connected with the nemeton. I agree -- I was moving away from the phoenix theory until the last episode. In a lot of myths, phoenixes (and/or their counterparts in other cultures) are tied to specific trees. If that doesn't scream "Nemeton", I don't know what does. :P

Also noteworthy is in some very obscure phoenix-related mythology, the bird flies down from the sky at a funeral and lays its head down on the deceased's body in grief. I'm not really sure what the significance there is, mythologically speaking, but if Jeff saw a myth like that it may have inspired this Nemeton-funeral-pyre thingy that's going on?