>>13507545It's based off of the Phoenix, which is associated with resurrection. It also has the power to revive the dead; giving life back to the legendary beasts after they died when the Brass Tower fell. There's also the whole 'rainbow' motif Ho-oh has; maybe there's some symbolism behind it. In Genesis, God put a rainbow in the sky as a promise that he'd never flood the earth again, which sort of also ties into the whole 'rebirth' or 'reincarnation' idea in the sense that the rainbow appeared when the earth was born again anew; but I think that might be stretching it a bit. Still, interesting to consider.
