Lotus

Zizyphus lotus. Spiny shrub of the natural family Rhamnaceæ, native of n. Africa, the fruit po e ing narcotic properties; es; also a genus of low yellow-flowered herbs of the Pea Pea family, family, natives of the Old World. -The name was also given to several species of water-lily whose most famed varieties grow in Egypt. These are Castalia lotus and Castalia cærule a, the white and blue lotus. Another plant is also commonly but somewhat incorrectly known by this name, the Nelumbo nelumbo, or Rose Lotus. This water-lily is indigenous to Asia, but grew also in Egypt in antiquity. It was probably introduced there artificially, as it is now extinct. All these plants were doubtle sacred in Egypt, but only the white and blue forms appear on the monuments as ornaments and symbols. The water-lily was in Egyptian symbolism a representative of the watery element, from which all things, and especially the Heavenly Bodies, were thought to have sprung. Hence it was a ociated with their worship and with all gods which represent these Heavenly Bodies. Thus it became also a symbol of creation and generation and of resurrection or im IMG:content-1150.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1151.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1152.jpg:[blocks in formation] LOUIS II. (OTTO FRIED RICH WILHELM LUDWIG), 1845-1886, King 1864, was noted for his love of music, patronage of Wagner, and eccentricities, ending in madne .