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Ancient Egyptian funerary stele showing a dead man named Ba, seated at the centre, sniffing a sacred lily, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550–1292 BC. Along with the white lotus, Nymphaea lotus, also native to Egypt, the plant and flower are very frequently depicted in Ancient Egyptian art.
Nefertem represented both the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian blue lotus flower, having arisen from the primal waters within an Egyptian blue water-lily, Nymphaea caerulea. Some of the titles of Nefertem were "He Who is Beautiful" and "Water-Lily of the Sun", and a version of the Book of the Dead says:
This flower often appears in ancient Egyptian decorations. They believed that the lotus flower gave them strength and power; remains of the flower have been found in the burial tomb of Ramesses II . Egyptian tomb paintings from around 1500 BC provide some of the earliest physical evidence of ornamental horticulture and landscape design; they ...
Dating back to ancient Egypt, the lotus flower was associated with the sun and rebirth—specifically because of this. It often appeared in Egyptian art and was used as a symbol of purity and ...
Blue lotus may refer to: . Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea, a water lily in the genus Nymphaea that was known to the Ancient Egyptian civilizations; Nymphaea nouchali, a water lily of genus Nymphaea that is native to southern and eastern parts of Asia, containing the sedating alkaloids apomorphine and nuciferine
“The lotus’s significance can be traced back thousands of years in ancient Egyptian, Indian, and East Asian traditions,” says plant expert Jennifer Snyder of Blue Owl Crystals. “In ancient ...
Flowers were raised in gardens to make decorative bouquets and for use in religious ceremonies. Common garden flowers were the mandrake and the daisy, chrysanthemum, anemone, and poppy, jasmine, and the rose. Egyptian ponds and basins were often decorated white and blue lotus (Nymphaea caerulea) and with papyrus.
Tutankhamun as Nefertem emerging from a blue lotus bloom, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. The partially damaged head of Nefertem is carved out of wood and is 30 centimetres (12 in) high. The stucco coating is painted red, though large sections have been damaged; Carter attributed this to its seizure by Egyptian authorities in 1924. [6]