The research is motivated by a construction of groups of oscillating growth by Kassabov and Pak [25] and a description of possible growth functions of finitely generated associative algebras by Bell and Zelmanov [9]. In this paper we address both, the question of possible growth functions in case of Lie algebras, and the Kurosh problem, because our examples of restricted Lie algebras have a nil p-mapping, which is an analogue of nillity for associative algebras or periodicity for groups.Namely, for any field of positive characteristic, we construct a family of 3-generated restricted Lie algebras of intermediate oscillating growth. We call them Phoenix algebras because, for infinitely many periods of time, the algebra is “almost dying” by having a quasi-linear growth, namely the lower Gelfand-Kirillov dimension is one, more precisely, the growth is of type n(ln⋯ln︸qtimesn)κ, where q∈N, κ>0 are constants. On the other hand, for infinitely many n the growth function has a rather fast intermediate behavior of type exp(n/(lnn)λ), λ being a constant determined by characteristic, for such periods the algebra is “resuscitating”. Moreover, the growth function is bounded and oscillating between these two types of behavior. These restricted Lie algebras have a nil p-mapping, thus addressing the Kurosh problem as well.