	Site Map \| FAQ in Daily Almanac for Dec 7, 2009 Search White Pages
Skip Navigation Home Winter Holidays Atlas Encyclopedia Dictionary Thesaurus Features Quizzes Timelines Countries Slideshows

Fact Monster Kid's reference,
games, quizzes

Editor's Favorites

Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lotus

The Egyptians pictured God sitting on a lote-tree, above the watery mud. Jamblichus says the leaves and fruit of the lote-tree being round represent “the motion of intellect;” its towering up through mud symbolises the eminency of divine intellect over matter; and the Deity sitting on the lote-tree implies His intellectual sovereignty. (Myster. Egypt., sec. 7, cap. ii. p. 151.)

Lotus.

Mahomet says that a lote-tree stands in the seventh heaven, on the right hand of the throne of God. Dryope of OEchalia was one day carrying her infant son, when she plucked a lotus flower for his amusement, and was instantaneously transformed into a lotus.

Lotis,

daughter of Neptune, fleeing from Priapus, was metamorphosed into a lotus.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

Lotus-eaters

Lothian

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Lotus

More on Lotus from Infoplease:

Related Content