I love Fleurs

🪷Especially Lotus & Peonies🪷

Lotus flowers, either for their striking beauty or for rising from the "bottom" of the waters, have become a metaphorical symbol in the religions of Ancient Egypt, India, and China. In Ancient Egypt, along with the dung beetle, the phoenix, and the sun itself (Re or Ra), lotuses represent resurrection. In the case of the lotus this is by emerging resplendent from the deep waters. In India the lotus is called padma in Sanskrit. The main gods and goddesses were born in padmas or lotuses. The Hindu padma usually serves as a model to figure mandalas or to configure the chakras. In China, Japan and all places with Buddhist traditions a characteristic ritual prayer mentions the lotus: om mani padme hum ("om jewel in the lotus hūṃ!").

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Peonies generic name in honor of Paion, the doctor of the gods who is mentioned in the Iliad and in Homer's Odyssey. He healed Ares when he was wounded by Diomedes during the Trojan War; there is also mention of a previous healing that he did to Hades from an arrow shot by Heracles in Pylos.2 Also in Pliny the Elder, book 25, X, 1, which recommends it against "the nightmares caused by fauns."

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