Telling the Bees
Telling the Bees, is an old Rural Custom of Europe that was carried over to America by settlers. It involved telling the bees about important happenings in day to day life, including births, marriages and deaths. At weddings cake and other offerings might be left for the bees, while with a death black cloth would be draped over the hive and a mournful tune may be hummed or sang. These various customs were said to be done to avoid the Hive leaving especially in regards to the death of their beekeeper, but it also may be a leftover tradition involving bees as messengers of the gods and of/to the dead. It also may be a way of insuring the bonding of the beekeeper to the collective consciousness of the hive, so as to retain the trust of the bees and continue the symbiotic relationship between man and insect.-TLK
Telling the Bees, is an old Rural Custom of Europe that was carried over to America by settlers. It involved telling the bees about important happenings in day to day life, including births, marriages and deaths. At weddings cake and other offerings might be left for the bees, while with a death black cloth would be draped over the hive and a mournful tune may be hummed or sang. These various customs were said to be done to avoid the Hive leaving especially in regards to the death of their beekeeper, but it also may be a leftover tradition involving bees as messengers of the gods and of/to the dead. It also may be a way of insuring the bonding of the beekeeper to the collective consciousness of the hive, so as to retain the trust of the bees and continue the symbiotic relationship between man and insect.-TLK
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Napoleon & Merovingian Bees
The Merovingian ruling Dynasty of the Franks found the bee to be a most hallowed and sacred animal. This symbolism of immortality and royalty influenced Napoleon who took the bee as his own symbol, sewing it into his robes, and using it for his flag (The Bumblebee Flag of Alba). This was partly to escape the use of the Fleur-de-lys, though ironically he might have actually just gone to the older version of said symbol if some evidence is to be believed. While the symbol is associated with the Merovingians, it likely finds even older origins in the Diana and Artemis style cults of the Old Ones who used the Bee as a symbol of the goddess.-TLK
The Merovingian ruling Dynasty of the Franks found the bee to be a most hallowed and sacred animal. This symbolism of immortality and royalty influenced Napoleon who took the bee as his own symbol, sewing it into his robes, and using it for his flag (The Bumblebee Flag of Alba). This was partly to escape the use of the Fleur-de-lys, though ironically he might have actually just gone to the older version of said symbol if some evidence is to be believed. While the symbol is associated with the Merovingians, it likely finds even older origins in the Diana and Artemis style cults of the Old Ones who used the Bee as a symbol of the goddess.-TLK
Artemis of Ephesus, with various symbols including bees.
There are as many kinds of honey as there are types of flower. Ranging from the sweet Thistle honey, the strong mead-perfect Buckwheat Honey, the mad Honey of Asia where a spoonful can get you high as a kite or even dead! These many varieties are made by bees visiting various plants, as a result in order to make specific honey one has to expose the bees to a contained area, or hope and pray whichever works.
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