Lotus

The lotus flower arrived in a mythological story creating from very old Egypt. It played an important part in very old Egyptian any system of faith and worship. The pure white lotus flower, the only shrub to fruit and flower simultaneously, issues from the deepness of the muddy swamp. Growing from the mud at the bottom of ponds and a current of water, the exquisite Lotus flower rises over the water and is in the ordinary way white or pink with 15 or more egg-shaped, spreading shrubs, and a strange, flat seedcase at its center.

Seen A Lotus Flower. This is a representation of the sun, of the act of creating and rebirth. Because at night the flower closes and sinks underwater, at dawn it rises and opens again. According to one the act of creating myth it was a titan lotus which first rose out of the watery complete this order at the commencement of time. From this a titan lotus the sun itself rose on the first day. A representation of Upper Egypt .The lotus flower played a prominent role in the version of the act of creating story that originated in Heliopolis. Before the universe came into being, there was a boundless ocean of inert water which constituted the primeval being named Nun. Out of Nun issued a lotus flower, together with a single an artificial hill of dry land. The lotus flower-bud opened, and out stepped the self-created sun god, Atom, as a child. A slightly various version of the act of creating story originated in Hermopolis. In that version, the sun god who formed himself from the complete disorder of Nun issued from the lotus shrubs as Ra. The lotus is a flower which opens and closes each day. His history went on to say that the petals of the lotus flower-bud enfolded him when he returned to it each night.

The lotus flower has been featured comprehensively throughout the art of very old Egypt. In different 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 different gods or humans, and many other depictions. The ancient Egyptians from the 4th dynasty greatly valued the sacred lotus, in religious ceremonies and burial.