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Lotus Flower
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The lotus flower
appeared in legends originating from ancient Egypt. It played an
important part in ancient Egyptian religion. The pure white lotus
flower, the only plant to fruit and flower simultaneously, emerges from
the depths of the muddy swamp. Growing from the mud at the bottom of
ponds and streams, the exquisite Lotus flower rises above the water and
is usually white or pink with 15 or more oval, spreading petals, and a
peculiar, flat seedcase at its center.
Sesen
A Lotus Flower. This is a
symbol of the sun, of creation and rebirth. Because at night the flower closes
and sinks underwater, at dawn it rises and opens again. According to one
creation myth it was a giant lotus which first rose out of the watery chaos at
the beginning of time. From this giant lotus the sun itself rose on the first
day. A symbol of Upper Egypt
The lotus flower
has been featured extensively throughout the art of ancient Egypt. In various
works of art, you may see it held in the hand of a god or human, serving as a
border to outline a section of the artwork, unfolding to reveal various gods or
humans, and many other depictions. The ancient Egyptians from the 4th dynasty
greatly valued the sacred lotus, in religious ceremonies and funerals. |
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Lotuses are 5 species of water lilies, three in the
genus Nymphaea and two in Nelumbo; both genera are members of the water-lily
family, Nymphaea lotus, the Egyptian white lotus, is believed to be the original
sacred lotus of ancient Egypt. It and the Egyptian blue lotus, N. caerulea, were
often pictured in ancient Egyptian art.
The common Egyptian "lotus" is actually correctly
called a water lily: the white lotus opens at dusk, the blue water lilly opens
in the morning.
The white lotus is a shallow-water, night-blooming plant with a creeping rootstock (rhizome) that sends up long-stalked, nearly circular, dark green leathery leaves, which float on the surface. The flowers, up to 25 cm (10 in) across, remain open until midday. The blue lotus is a smaller, less showy day-blooming plant.
The Lotus flower has for thousands of years symbolized spiritual
enlightenment. Indeed, this flower essence's purpose is to accelerate
spiritual evolvement and enhance healing on every level within the
system.
The blue lotus was native to the Nile and used to be
abundant. Its narrow, pointed petals and round, spotted leaves appear as
the more common lotus in every conceivable opportunity for Egyptian
artistic imagery. Often the leaf spots are not shown, or even the leaf. The white lotus' rounded petals appear with round, scalloped edge leaves. The red lotus was introduced to Egypt from Persia in later dynasties.
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INFORMATION: Represented in ancient Egyptian art. The blue lotus was found scattered over Tutankhamen's body when the Pharaoh's tomb was opened in 1922. Many historians thought it was a purely symbolic flower, but there may be some reason to believe that ancient Egyptians used it to induce an ecstatic state, stimulation, and/or hallucinations, as well as being widely used as a general remedy against illness, and to this day is used as a tonic for good health, consumed as an extract, | |
God of the primeval lotus blossom, who is represented by the blue lotus. His name had the notion of 'perfection'. Nefertem was usually depicted as a man with a lotus-flower headdress, sometimes with the addition of two plumes and two necklace counterpoises, which are symbols of fertility through their connection with Het-Hert (Hathor). Since the sun was believed to have arisen from a lotus, Nefertem was linked with the sun-god, as described in the Pyramid Texts utterance 266 as ‘the lotus blossom which is before the nose of Re’, probably an allusion to the use of this scented flower by guests at banquets and making Nefertum the god of fragrance.
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