Dried Blue Lotus Flower - 3 pieces

Three whole dried flowers.   The Dried Blue Lotus Flower (Nymphaea caerulea) was for a long time a very important flower in ancient Egypt and the Maya, so much so that it was found in numerous papyri and in wall representations of the temples of the Karnak and Luxor valleys. 

According to several scholars, struck by this parallelism between two cultures so distant geographically, blue lotus flowers were used in both cultures for ritualistic purposes and probably to achieve altered states of consciousness during religious ceremonies.   In all likelihood, beyond its symbolic and religious aspect, the Blue Lotus was also used by the ancient Egyptians and Mayans as a meditative plant, capable of promoting concentration, relaxation and lucid dreams.