There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a strange tradition.
Whenever there was a death in the family, someone had to go out to the hives and tell the bees of the terrible loss that had befallen the family.
Failing to do so often resulted in further losses such as the bees leaving the hive, or not producing enough honey or even dying.
Traditionally, the bees were kept abreast of not only deaths but all important family matters including births, marriages, and long absence due to journeys. If the bees were not told, all sorts of calamities were thought to happen. This peculiar custom is known as “telling the bees”.
The practice of telling the bees may have its origins in Celtic mythology that held that bees were the link between our world and the spirit world. So if you had any message that you wished to pass to someone who was dead, all you had to do was tell the bees and they would pass along the message.
The typical way to tell the bees was for the head of the household, or “goodwife of the house” to go out to the hives, knock gently to get the attention of the bees, and then softly murmur in a doleful tune the solemn news.
Little rhymes developed over the centuries specific to a particular region. In Nottinghamshire, the wife of the dead was heard singing quietly in front of the hive,
“The master's dead, but don't you go; Your mistress will be a good mistress to you.”
In Germany, a similar couplet was heard,
“Little bee, our lord is dead; Leave me not in my distress”.
But the relationship between bees and humans goes beyond superstition. It’s a fact, that bees help humans survive. 70 of the top 100 crop species that feed 90% of the human population rely on bees for pollination.
Without them, these plants would cease to exist and with it all animals that eat those plants. This can have a cascading effect that would ripple catastrophically up the food chain.
Losing a beehive is much worse than losing a supply of honey. The consequences are life threatening.
The act of telling the bees emphasizes this deep connection humans share with the insect.
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Art: “The Bee Friend”, a painting by Hans Thoma (1839–1924)
Credit for words Mark D'Aguilar
Whenever there was a death in the family, someone had to go out to the hives and tell the bees of the terrible loss that had befallen the family.
Failing to do so often resulted in further losses such as the bees leaving the hive, or not producing enough honey or even dying.
Traditionally, the bees were kept abreast of not only deaths but all important family matters including births, marriages, and long absence due to journeys. If the bees were not told, all sorts of calamities were thought to happen. This peculiar custom is known as “telling the bees”.
The practice of telling the bees may have its origins in Celtic mythology that held that bees were the link between our world and the spirit world. So if you had any message that you wished to pass to someone who was dead, all you had to do was tell the bees and they would pass along the message.
The typical way to tell the bees was for the head of the household, or “goodwife of the house” to go out to the hives, knock gently to get the attention of the bees, and then softly murmur in a doleful tune the solemn news.
Little rhymes developed over the centuries specific to a particular region. In Nottinghamshire, the wife of the dead was heard singing quietly in front of the hive,
“The master's dead, but don't you go; Your mistress will be a good mistress to you.”
In Germany, a similar couplet was heard,
“Little bee, our lord is dead; Leave me not in my distress”.
But the relationship between bees and humans goes beyond superstition. It’s a fact, that bees help humans survive. 70 of the top 100 crop species that feed 90% of the human population rely on bees for pollination.
Without them, these plants would cease to exist and with it all animals that eat those plants. This can have a cascading effect that would ripple catastrophically up the food chain.
Losing a beehive is much worse than losing a supply of honey. The consequences are life threatening.
The act of telling the bees emphasizes this deep connection humans share with the insect.
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Art: “The Bee Friend”, a painting by Hans Thoma (1839–1924)
Credit for words Mark D'Aguilar
Forwarded from West Coast News & Discussion
CONTROLLING THE MASSES
For amusement, let's follow the football analogy and apply it to bloodlines in a way you might understand!
So your favorite sports team (your bloodline /ancestry) boards an autobus with the objective of traveling cross-country to a sporting match. Everyone on the bus (you and your ancestors) agree they want to get to the game where they can have a "shot" at fame and glory!!
Let's further imagine that there is not a hired driver but that each sports participant will get a turn at the steering wheel!
You can imagine with the variety of personalities on the bus that some will be diligent and drive directly at top speed! Others may get distracted! Some may stop excessively to eat and satisfy some psychological craving they have. Others are drunks! and wish to stop at every pub along the way and drink to excess. Not only do these people delay the progress of the team in reaching their destination, but their dissolute living puts the entire team at risk of accident and death. The selfish ones care little as long as their needs are met!
Some drivers might stop to assist their stranded fellow traveler! What a good guy! However, in doing so they delay the progress of their fellow team mates! Certainly, the one providing the service looks the hero and collects accolades, but he has done a disservice to the others on the bus to satisfy the ego. From the viewpoint of the teammates, it is a selfish act.
By now even the dullards here MUST gather the meaning.
The bus is of course the bloodline. Ancestors and those yet to come are all helpless passengers as each bloodline member gets their turn at the wheel! You are free to do as you want...free will and all that...but everyone on your team will pay a price for your choices...such as they are!
What will you do with YOUR TURN?
NOW! Let's say that the other team knows your bus is full of lower form primates who respond to their base instincts. So the opposition team, being the black-hearts they are, erect a billboard advertising young women who will dance and writhe for your pleasure! And serve alcohol until you are stupid! Hooray!
Who is responsible for the team bus now parked in that parking lot? The team, or proprietor?
This is how we control the masses. Money is illusory. All that exists is human energy/power and control. Look behind the curtain, don't watch the show!
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[ Above content was written by a self-proclaimed Rothschild between 2011-2013 in an online forum. This was 1 excerpt of many posted here: https://t.me/joinchat/RiH2OvZzxIHJjpBM
Consolidated from the original thread/forum here: https://archive.li/qERv5 ]
For amusement, let's follow the football analogy and apply it to bloodlines in a way you might understand!
So your favorite sports team (your bloodline /ancestry) boards an autobus with the objective of traveling cross-country to a sporting match. Everyone on the bus (you and your ancestors) agree they want to get to the game where they can have a "shot" at fame and glory!!
Let's further imagine that there is not a hired driver but that each sports participant will get a turn at the steering wheel!
You can imagine with the variety of personalities on the bus that some will be diligent and drive directly at top speed! Others may get distracted! Some may stop excessively to eat and satisfy some psychological craving they have. Others are drunks! and wish to stop at every pub along the way and drink to excess. Not only do these people delay the progress of the team in reaching their destination, but their dissolute living puts the entire team at risk of accident and death. The selfish ones care little as long as their needs are met!
Some drivers might stop to assist their stranded fellow traveler! What a good guy! However, in doing so they delay the progress of their fellow team mates! Certainly, the one providing the service looks the hero and collects accolades, but he has done a disservice to the others on the bus to satisfy the ego. From the viewpoint of the teammates, it is a selfish act.
By now even the dullards here MUST gather the meaning.
The bus is of course the bloodline. Ancestors and those yet to come are all helpless passengers as each bloodline member gets their turn at the wheel! You are free to do as you want...free will and all that...but everyone on your team will pay a price for your choices...such as they are!
What will you do with YOUR TURN?
NOW! Let's say that the other team knows your bus is full of lower form primates who respond to their base instincts. So the opposition team, being the black-hearts they are, erect a billboard advertising young women who will dance and writhe for your pleasure! And serve alcohol until you are stupid! Hooray!
Who is responsible for the team bus now parked in that parking lot? The team, or proprietor?
This is how we control the masses. Money is illusory. All that exists is human energy/power and control. Look behind the curtain, don't watch the show!
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[ Above content was written by a self-proclaimed Rothschild between 2011-2013 in an online forum. This was 1 excerpt of many posted here: https://t.me/joinchat/RiH2OvZzxIHJjpBM
Consolidated from the original thread/forum here: https://archive.li/qERv5 ]
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Consolidation from the original thread: https://archive.li/qERv5
Forwarded from West Coast News & Discussion
WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES CORPORATIONS OF AMERICA
If you want to take over the world, build an American corporate empire to monopolize and ban dissent. Then, form a coalition of like-minded peers who graduated from the same elite universities where wokeism is indoctrinated as a secular religion to strategize on circumventing republican governance. Over the weekend, more than 100 executives met to do just that.
They met virtually on Saturday to discuss ways for companies to continue responding to the passage of more restrictive voting laws across the country, in a signal that the nation’s top businesses are preparing a far more robust, organized response to the ongoing election reform debate.
Those invited include leaders of American Airlines, United, Atlanta Falcons, Levi Strauss, Walmart, Viacom CBS, Ariel Invests, LinkedIn, Twitter, AMC Theatres, among others.
Their goal (for this call) to strategize how to punish states in pursuit of common-sense election reforms. [ Article ]
If you want to take over the world, build an American corporate empire to monopolize and ban dissent. Then, form a coalition of like-minded peers who graduated from the same elite universities where wokeism is indoctrinated as a secular religion to strategize on circumventing republican governance. Over the weekend, more than 100 executives met to do just that.
They met virtually on Saturday to discuss ways for companies to continue responding to the passage of more restrictive voting laws across the country, in a signal that the nation’s top businesses are preparing a far more robust, organized response to the ongoing election reform debate.
Those invited include leaders of American Airlines, United, Atlanta Falcons, Levi Strauss, Walmart, Viacom CBS, Ariel Invests, LinkedIn, Twitter, AMC Theatres, among others.
Their goal (for this call) to strategize how to punish states in pursuit of common-sense election reforms. [ Article ]
Forwarded from Folkish France
A year ago on this day a fire broke in Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the most famous cathedral in the world.
Did you know that in 1711 the oldest Parisian monument was discovered in its basement?
Dating from the 1st century, the Pillar of the Boatmen appears to be an offering from the boatmen of the Seine (the nautes) to the Roman emperor Tiberius who then reigned over Gaul.
However, their allegiance remained cautious: the pillar (also called a dedication stone) represents both the Celtic pantheon and that of the new Roman rulers, a rare example of syncretism.
You can read more about this Gallo-Roman monument on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_of_the_Boatmen
Did you know that in 1711 the oldest Parisian monument was discovered in its basement?
Dating from the 1st century, the Pillar of the Boatmen appears to be an offering from the boatmen of the Seine (the nautes) to the Roman emperor Tiberius who then reigned over Gaul.
However, their allegiance remained cautious: the pillar (also called a dedication stone) represents both the Celtic pantheon and that of the new Roman rulers, a rare example of syncretism.
You can read more about this Gallo-Roman monument on
Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_of_the_Boatmen