From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:18:37 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Egyptian Stock

Hi to all on Biological Beekeeping:

Peter wrote:

> Could you elaborate on your statement,"beekeeping helped in setting the
> stage for all sciences and religion on earth"? I have never heard this
> explanation for the spread of enlightenment and culture before.

Reply:

Really!

To begin, there are many stories concerning the origin of the honeybee
handed down through literature.

Some say the gods transformed the goddess Melissa into a bee and bestowed upon her the ability to reproduce without a mate.Ancient Greeks say bees are a result of a mystical marriage between hornets and the sun, a joining which was ordained and blessed by the gods on Mt. Olympus.

Greek legends relate that the infant god Zeus was hidden from the wrath of
his father to protect his life. Safe in a cave where he was taken, he was
well nourished on goat's milk and raw honey provided by Melissa's bees that
later protected him from harm when four men came to get him.

Many countries have their stories of bees similar to above in their early
writings and stories passed down. Still it has been written that in all the
misrepresentations and legends handed down, one fact stands out clearly.

Almost without exception, every age has regarded the bee as a benefactor of
mankind and accords our little honeybees almost holy status.

the Bible, the Talmud, the Torah, the Koran (the Code of Islam), along with
the scrolls of the Orient, the writings of ancient Greece and Rome, the
legends of the Russian and Slavic people, even the reletively recent Book of
Mormon (1830), all praise the industrious honeybee and her highly nutritious
and healing products of the beehive.

However, woe is the century of the years 1900-1999. Our poor honeybee has
now been humiliated and put down. Never before in history have bees been
dumped upon and genocided by petro chemical, etc.all in search of for what?
Afraid of what in the feral? Just men's minds.....

I could go on deep writing , but I will stop.

Concerning science. early egyptian physicians called honey the universal
healer. In ancient China, honey was used to treat the victims of
smallpox.Our bible lists many uses of honey in healing. I could go on....

Through the study of comb foundation by early scholars it has been written
that it would be difficult to find any human engineering achievement, even
in modern aeronautical practice, that surpasses the honey-comb as a colution of the problem of combining light weight and great strength.

From it's early study, man learned, and copied the building of simple homes to complex multi level housing units. From simple spans over streams to grand bridges over rivers. Even the carrying of water for miles and miles with aquaducts did the romans of old.

From study of the angles man learned and plotted navigation courses that
allowed him to explore our earth and now we go to the moon and beyond it is written. Yet how many today know that most early scholars were of the
church, or were schooled by scholars of the church no matter what their
faith or country on earth.

From bees, we get our earliest wines and drink, our earliest medicines for
healing, our travel for discovery with navigation for earth and the stars,
our building for homes and bridges, our pollenation for food and basically
the tie that binds us all together no matter where we live.

I'll get off my soap box now.

Just a little reply. I could write more, but there is much to read if you
just look and seek.

Dee