Water Flowers – Inspiration of striving towards

Water Flowers

Nymphaeaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains five genera with about 70 known species. Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on or emergent from the surface.

Incredible India

Far away in the Indian jungle, there lies a small and mysterious lake. When the moon rises, big and yellow, to the sky, the moon goddess and hundreds of stars come down to dance on the lake. They dance, all night long, to the chants of a witch who is standing beside the waterfall. With dawn, the moon goddess claps her hands and all of them must return to the skies. But one night, seven stars continued to dance. They suffered heavily for their disobedience: the witch had them in her power and changed them into fairies, forcing them to dance on the water-lilies forever.”

The translation of this fairytale is based on one of the twelve stories in the book “The Twelve Wonderful Fairytales”, written by the Belgian Queen Fabiola in 1955. 

Nature-spirits

The yakshas are a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness.

They appear in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist texts, as well as ancient and medieval era temples of South Asia and Southeast Asia as guardian deities.

In Hindu, Jain and Buddhist texts, the yakṣa has a dual personality. On the one hand, a yakṣa may be an inoffensive nature-fairy, associated with woods and mountains; but there is also a darker version of the yakṣa, which is a kind of ghost (bhuta) that haunts the wilderness and waylays and devours travellers, similar to the rakṣasas.

Common Water Lily Flower Colors and Their Meaning

White: Purity, innocence, grief.

Pink: Joy, youth, friendship.

Red: Passion, wealth, romance.

Yellow: Energy, good health, new starts.

Blue: Calm, wisdom, recovery.

Green: Growth, money, family.

Orange: Power, fun, success.

Saigon Elixir Water Flowers

For Buddhists, Water Lilies are often grown to symbolize the spiritual process of striving towards enlightenment.  No wonder that the water flowers are an inspiration for people and cultures. Saigon Elixir present the best we have in our water flowers compounds, which represents a fine taste, a perfect addition to your outfit and be ready for the new year.