Lotis (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Lotis was a nymph mentioned by Ovid.
Priapus and Lotis, detail of The Feast of the Gods by Giovanni Bellini (c. 1514)
Priapus and Lotis by Wilton Album
The story of Priapus and Lotis, engraving by Giovanni Battista Palumba, c. 1510
''Priapo Insidia Lotide Addormentata'' by Tintoretto
Lotus tree
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The lotus tree is a plant that is referred to in stories from Greek and Roman mythology. It is not known if it was real or mythical, and there are multiple candidates for possible real plants that mig
Lotis (mythology)
…his intentions. In another work of his however, the Metamorphoses, Lotis escaped Priapus only when she was changed into a lotus, either a plant or the lotus tree; later, Dryope picked a flower off the tree Lotis had become, and was transformed into a black poplar. This narrative is only found in one more author…
A standing man, Egyptian appearance, holding branches of a lotus tree. Excavated by a BISI team in the mid-20th century CE. Neo-Assyrian period, 9th-7th centuries BCE. From Nimrud, Mesopotamia, Iraq.
Dryope is changed into a lotus-plant when to please her little boy she picks a flower from the metamorphosed Lotis which then starts to bleed (Ovid, Metamorphoses IX 331)
This illustration from Walters manuscript W.659 depicts a lotus tree (nabq).