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| God Nefertum |
God of the earlier lotus blossom. The name of Nefertum has the notion of ne plus ultra. He is the blue lotus out of which, fitting to one myth, the sun rises. In a description in the Pyramid Texts Nefertum is the lotus bloom in front of the nose of
Ra the textual level of courtiers holding the plant in their hand and ventilation in the wind of the lotus. In art Nefertum is normally anthropomorphic heavy a head-dress in the process of the lotus plant, embroidered with two prides and two necklace counterpoises (Hathoric symbolisation of fertility).
God Nefertum sometimes described lion-headed by connection with leonine mother goddesses: at Memphis god Nefertum is the son of the lioness-goddess Sakhmet and, though it is never explicitly expressed, he turns by significance the child of the union of the goddess and Ptah. At Buto in the Delta Nefertum is the special son of Wadjet, a cobra-goddess who can have leonine form. Likewise the feline goddess Bastet has a require to being the gods mother. As a child, he can be depicted seated on a lotus blossom, aware of the young sun god.
