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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Illuminations from the Middle Ages depicting Beekeeping
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Honeybee Gods
There are a myriad of gods in Europe related to honey and the bees that produce it. In Gaul the goddess Nanosuelta was said to be a honeybee goddess, with a beehive at the end of her staff. in Greece there were the set of Bee Goddesses led by Melissa that took care of baby Zeus, while Aristaeus is the god of Beekeeping and when he lost his bees after angering the aforementioned bee goddesses, attempted to placate the angry Bee goddesses by giving them cows, from the corpses of the cows came swarms of honeybees with which he could raise. Further North bees were sacred to the Celtic goddess Brigid, the Finnish god Ukko, and could be found honored as the goddess Austeja and the god Babilas in the Baltic, where idols of them doubled as beehives. Beyla an Eddic goddess is often named as the bee goddess of the Norse. While among the Slavs there is the god Zosim who was also associated with mead and bawdy songs, alongside honey and bees.-TLK
There are a myriad of gods in Europe related to honey and the bees that produce it. In Gaul the goddess Nanosuelta was said to be a honeybee goddess, with a beehive at the end of her staff. in Greece there were the set of Bee Goddesses led by Melissa that took care of baby Zeus, while Aristaeus is the god of Beekeeping and when he lost his bees after angering the aforementioned bee goddesses, attempted to placate the angry Bee goddesses by giving them cows, from the corpses of the cows came swarms of honeybees with which he could raise. Further North bees were sacred to the Celtic goddess Brigid, the Finnish god Ukko, and could be found honored as the goddess Austeja and the god Babilas in the Baltic, where idols of them doubled as beehives. Beyla an Eddic goddess is often named as the bee goddess of the Norse. While among the Slavs there is the god Zosim who was also associated with mead and bawdy songs, alongside honey and bees.-TLK
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Bestiary Entry #33-The White Women
Territory and Habitat: Wilds, Waters, Burial Mounds, and Haunted Areas Across Hyperborean Lands, especially prominent in Celtic and Germanic Lands, as well as America.
A common and powerful female spirit, the White Women, also known as White Ladies, and Wise Women are a kind of spirit appearing as a beautiful woman in an ethereal white gown. Many of them haunt the place they left this realm. Some for murder, some for unfinished business. While others identical in visage are more fey than fatality. Some haunt the barrows and the burial mounds that populate the lands, built by the Old Ones. Some are in service to a deity such as those of Hertha Lake or those who tend to Holle in her land of treasures and wonders, or travel with the wild hunt of Perchta and Gaude. They are sometimes said to beAlfs Elves, while others paint them as ancestral spirits similar to the Very “Good Women” who tend to arrive to visit during the Yuletide. They are rarely aggressive, though they may be restless and confused. Especially in Dutch Lore, these spirits are considered the ghosts of Wise Women and healers, still capable of imparting gifts and healing.
Note: Church Authorities have found it difficult to crush belief in them and knowledge of them has spread and combined with the legends of Fey and Elves.
Eyewitness reports
1) An Old German Farmer was reported as having been on a hunt for an Ibex when coming across a cave encrusted in gems. The White Women seem to be surrounding Frau Holda, who was sitting on a cloud, he claims the goddess and her attendants gave him the gift of Flax Flowers. Years later he disappeared, never to be seen again, supposedly he returned to Holda.
2) A young boy sat out on the Yuletide to see the ethereal beings who came for the offered food, he was lucky as Perchta was not involved. The fair yet brutal goddess is not fond of being seen while out on the Yuletide, blinding those who see her. The boy was fine and found sleeping inside the cabinet the following morn.
3) Reports of a haunted castle in South Bohemia, Rožmberk with a ghost of a Noblewoman named “Perchta” further study is needed to discover if this is the goddess or a simply an overlap of nomenclature.
4) In a Dutch village near Eefde, the White Women are said to gather on a Hill and dance on Christmas Eve, the Hill is appropriately named Wittewievenbult “White Women Hill”
Conclusion: Be Wary, though the White Women are then happy to help, respect them and they will return the favor, many have not been corporeal in this realm for many centuries and are prone to pranks and misunderstandings, boredom sets in for everyone eh?
Territory and Habitat: Wilds, Waters, Burial Mounds, and Haunted Areas Across Hyperborean Lands, especially prominent in Celtic and Germanic Lands, as well as America.
A common and powerful female spirit, the White Women, also known as White Ladies, and Wise Women are a kind of spirit appearing as a beautiful woman in an ethereal white gown. Many of them haunt the place they left this realm. Some for murder, some for unfinished business. While others identical in visage are more fey than fatality. Some haunt the barrows and the burial mounds that populate the lands, built by the Old Ones. Some are in service to a deity such as those of Hertha Lake or those who tend to Holle in her land of treasures and wonders, or travel with the wild hunt of Perchta and Gaude. They are sometimes said to be
Note: Church Authorities have found it difficult to crush belief in them and knowledge of them has spread and combined with the legends of Fey and Elves.
Eyewitness reports
1) An Old German Farmer was reported as having been on a hunt for an Ibex when coming across a cave encrusted in gems. The White Women seem to be surrounding Frau Holda, who was sitting on a cloud, he claims the goddess and her attendants gave him the gift of Flax Flowers. Years later he disappeared, never to be seen again, supposedly he returned to Holda.
2) A young boy sat out on the Yuletide to see the ethereal beings who came for the offered food, he was lucky as Perchta was not involved. The fair yet brutal goddess is not fond of being seen while out on the Yuletide, blinding those who see her. The boy was fine and found sleeping inside the cabinet the following morn.
3) Reports of a haunted castle in South Bohemia, Rožmberk with a ghost of a Noblewoman named “Perchta” further study is needed to discover if this is the goddess or a simply an overlap of nomenclature.
4) In a Dutch village near Eefde, the White Women are said to gather on a Hill and dance on Christmas Eve, the Hill is appropriately named Wittewievenbult “White Women Hill”
Conclusion:
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