Sacred Lotus flowers do not eat the way people and animals eat. They get nutrition and energy from the photosynthesis process.
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The lotus fruits and flowers were their primary food and were narcotic and addictive, causing the people to sleep in peaceful apathy.
They are peaceful people who eat lotus, and offer other people lotus to eat.
It made his men forget about wanting to return home to Ithaca. They are content to merely eat lotus for the rest of their lives. If a man eats the flower, they never want to leave the island of the lotus eaters.
They stay forever.
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The Lotus-Eaters were a group of people in Lydia (in Greek mythology) and once people entered their land, then they fed them lotus flowers in which they had a magic bean that made them forget their formal lives. This happened with Odysseus who lost some of his men there. Percy Jackson didn't eat a lotus flower in the book because they were probably mixed in with the cokes and such.
No, lotus flowers are not typically consumed as food. The seeds from the lotus flower are often used in culinary dishes, but the flower itself is not commonly eaten. Additionally, some species of lotus flowers can be toxic if ingested.
In the Odyssey, when men eat the lotus flower, they lose all desire to return home or continue their journey. They become indifferent to everything except eating the lotus flowers. This causes them to forget about their homes, families, and duties.
In the book, Percy Jackson and The Olympians The Lightning Thief Percy and his friends visit the Lotus Hotel and Casino. In the book, there really is no relation to the lotus eaters except the name and they trick people into staying forever. In the movie, the Lotus Hotel waitresses serve Lotus flowers for guests to eat.
In Greek mythology the lotus-eaters (the lotophagi or lotophaguses) were a people who lived on an island near North Africa where lotus plants grew. The lotus fruits and flowers were the primary food of the island and were narcotic, causing the people to sleep in peaceful apathy. Odysseus' twelve ships were driven off course by storms. They visited the island of the lotus-eaters who gave two of his men their fruit which caused them to forget their homecoming. These two men were captured by the cyclops Polyphemus, but escaped by blinding him with a wooden stake