Flowers in Ancient Egypt and Disney!
- WORDSWORTH WORDSMITHY
- Mar 26, 2024
- 2 min read
William and I were lucky enough to attend the Flower and Garden Festival at EPCOT where we got to see all of the beautiful 𓄤𓆑𓂋 flowers 𓆼𓅱𓆰𓏦 and topiaries! The pictures I am posting are some of my favorites that we saw! We are also going to use this as an opportunity to examine the significance of flowers 𓆼𓅱𓆰𓏦 in ancient Egypt!
When we envision Egypt 𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖, we usually think of an arid and desert 𓈊𓏏𓏺 environment. However, flowers 𓆼𓅱𓆰𓏦 were very popular in ancient Egypt 𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖 and it did have its own beautiful 𓄤𓆑𓂋 plants 𓆾𓆰𓆰𓆰 that were definitely appreciated by the ancient Egyptians 𓆎𓏏𓀀𓁐𓏪!
If you look at lists of hieroglyphic symbols, there are 44 individual hieroglyphs 𓊹𓌃𓏪 that represent plants 𓆾𓆰𓆰𓆰! For example, the phonogram/ideogram for the Nile Valley/Upper Egypt is 𓇗 – which represents a flowering plant.
Plants 𓆾𓆰𓆰𓆰 were used for food 𓇬𓀁𓅱𓏔𓏥 and medicine 𓇋𓅱𓈎𓏏𓆰𓏦, so they were vital in that respect. Plants 𓆾𓆰𓆰𓆰 were considered to be so important that Hatshepsut 𓇋𓏠𓈖𓎹𓏏𓄂𓏏𓀼𓏪 actually sent out an expedition of people to go and look for new plants 𓆾𓆰𓆰𓆰 that could be used for food 𓇬𓀁𓅱𓏔𓏥 or medicine 𓇋𓅱𓈎𓏏𓆰𓏦! The word for “medicine 𓇋𓅱𓈎𓏏𓆰𓏦” in Middle Egyptian even has one of the plant hieroglyphs 𓊹𓌃𓏪 in it!
We still appreciate plants 𓆾𓆰𓆰𓆰 for their beauty 𓄤𓆑𓂋 and usefulness to us even today!
Here is some flower-related vocabulary!
𓇐𓅓𓆰 – plant (noun)
𓆾𓆰𓆰𓆰 – plants
𓆼𓅱𓆰𓏦 – flowers
𓁷𓂋𓂋𓏏𓆰 – flower
𓍯𓇅 / 𓇅𓆰 – papyrus
𓇆𓆰𓏥 – vegetation
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