Blue Lotus Flower flower and pollen. The Dried Blue Lotus Flower (Nymphaea caerulea) was for a long time a very important flower in ancient Egypt and the Mayans, so much so that it can be found in numerous papyri and in the wall representations of the temples of the Karnak and Luxor valleys. According to several scholars, affected by this parallelism between two cultures so geographically distant, blue lotus flowers were used in both cultures for ritual purposes and probably to achieve altered states of consciousness during religious ceremonies. In all probability, beyond its symbolic and religious aspect, the Blue Lotus was also used by the ancient Egyptians and the Mayans as a meditative plant, capable of promoting concentration, relaxation and lucid dreaming.
