Formation
Morphological reading: apo- + phoenix.
The term names the first ADVENT work and immediately establishes a characteristic operation: an existing mythic object is not merely revived but prefixed into a stranger cycle of ending/rebeginning.
Source
Earliest indexed occurrence: ADVENT 1.1: The Apophoenix · 2021-12-03.
“—◢▲◤ ◢◂ ▸ ▾ ◥ I. THE APOPHOENIX 🜂 (uh-PAH-Fih-nix) Make do fake you — Improv ’s an…”
Why it matters
The point is not merely novelty. The collision arrives before the definition does. See The JQD word-machine and the lexicon entry.