Blue Lotus: The Ancient Egyptian Dream Flower

Blue Lotus this name is almost all of us know of heard. But the name of this flower is a look like a dream for us all. What's right. Actually it is not in dream but it is in reality between us. But the flower is currently very rare. So it is a dream like this in our work.

So one day I went out to make this dream come true. Me and my friend similarly, one afternoon, I took my  friend along with my district of jessore District, in the area of jhumjhumpur, I went there and friends and I went through a lot of trees and flowers and did not know the name. I used do see this rare thing in my turn.

Seeing this rare flower. I looked at the eclipse.

Then, after thinking of that work, I took some picture of this rare item. And since then my dream has become reality.

Distribution

Its original habitat may have been along the Nile and other parts of East Africa. It spread more widely in ancient times, including to the Indian subcontinent and Thailand.

Discription

The leaves are broadly rounded, 25-40 cm (10-16 in) across, with a notch at the leaf stem. The flowers are 10-15 cm (4-6 in) in diameter.

Reports in the literature by persons unfamiliar with its actual growth and blooming cycle have suggested that the flowers open in the morning, rising to the surface of the water, then close and sink at dusk. In fact, the flower buds rise to the surface over a period of two to three days, and when ready, open around 9:30 am and close about 3:00 pm. The flowers and buds do not rise above the water in the morning, nor do they submerge at night. The flowers have pale bluish white to sky-blue or mauve petals, smoothly changing to a pale yellow in the center of the flower.

Religion and Art.

Ancient Egyptian funerary steel showing a dead man, named seated in the center, sniffing a sacred lily.

Along with the white lotus, Nymphomania louts are also native to Egypt. the plant and flower are very frequently depicted in Egyptian art.They have been depicted in numerous stone carvings and paintings, including the walls of the famous temple of Karnataka, and are frequently depicted in connection with "party scenes", dancing or in significant spiritual or magical rites such as the rite of passage into the afterlife. N. cerulean was considered extremely significant in Egyptian mythology, regarded as a symbol of the sun, since the flowers are closed at night and open again in the morning. At Heliopolis, the origin of the world was taught to have been when the sun god Ra emerged from a lotus flower growing in "primordial waters". At night, he was believed to retreat into the flower again. Due to its color, it was identified, in some beliefs, as having been the original container, in a similar manner to an egg, of A tum, and in similar beliefs Ra, both solar deities. As such, its properties form the origin of the "lotus variant" of the Ladoga cosmogony. It was the symbol of the Egyptian deity Nefertiti.

REJAUR RAHMAN