PADMA

Chain of Names — 7 traditions

1. Egyptian

   ~3000 BCE

   Blue Lotus / Nymphaea

   Daily resurrection — opens at dawn, closes at dusk.

   Egyptian funerary art

2. Sanskrit / Vedic

   ~1500 BCE

   Padma पद्म

   Sacred bloom rising clean from muddy water — sahasrara crown.

   Vedas, tantric yoga

3. Greek-Classical

   ~700 BCE

   Lotos λωτός

   The fruit that dissolves return-home — Homer's lotus-eaters.

   Homer, Odyssey IX

4. Christian-Mystical

   14th c

   Mystical Rose

   Dante's celestial rose — saints arranged as petals around God.

   Dante, Paradiso XXX

5. Physics / Elemental

   20th c

   Phase Bloom

   Order parameter unfolding — symmetry breaking into form.

   Landau theory of phase transitions

6. Jungian

   20th c

   Self as Mandala

   Petalled wholeness — the centred unfolding of the Self.

   Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis

7. Modern Wellness

   21st c

   The Becoming

   Step into who you are — petals open from the inside out.

   Maddie, Sovereign Systems Spiral

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