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The idea of ??the picture: To depict one of the most beautiful aquatic plants on our planet - this, Lotus, “nymph nelyumbo" .????
I could not resist and captured this beauty with oil paints on canvas на
A brilliant beauty, for whom there are no rivals in the waters of the whole world, the rightful mistress of all colors, who are in front of her the same as twinkling stars in front of the moon in full radiance. ” It should be noted that the sacred lotus of the ancient Egyptians, from whom the god Ra was born and who served as the throne for Isis and Osiris, is the famous Nile water lily (Nymphaea lotos). This is a sacred plant of the East. For many centuries, the lotus in the East was worshiped, it occupied an honorable place in religious rites, traditions and legends, as evidenced by numerous monuments of writing, architecture and art. The mythopoetic tradition of Ancient India represented our earth as a giant lotus, blossoming on the surface of the waters, and paradise - as a huge lake, overgrown with beautiful pink lotuses, where righteous, pure souls live. The white lotus is an indispensable attribute of divine power. Therefore, many gods of India have traditionally been depicted standing or sitting on a lotus or with a lotus flower in their hand. Buddha sits on a lotus and rests Brahma. The Vishnu demiurge of the universe holds a lotus in one of four hands. “Lotus goddesses” are depicted with a lotus flower in their hair. Heavy rain from lotuses poured from the sky at the time of the birth of the Buddha, and wherever the foot of a divine newborn just stepped on, a huge lotus grew.
In China, the lotus was revered as a sacred plant even before the spread of Buddhism. So, one of the eight immortals, the virtuous maiden He Xin-gu was depicted holding a “flower of open heart” - a lotus. In Chinese painting, the theme of “western paradise” - a lotus lake was widespread. Each lotus growing on this lake corresponds to the soul deceased person. Depending on the virtue or sinfulness of a person’s earthly life, lotus flowers either bloom or wither.
Why, in ancient times and today, do people worship this plant? Maybe the reason is that its flowers are amazingly beautiful and always turned to the sun?
