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A Goddess is to Her Earthlings as the
Queen Bee is to Her Hive !
"Bees, like all insects that spin cocoons or weave
webs, serve as images of the miraculous interconnectedness of life. The intricate cellular structure that secretes the
golden essence of life is an image of the network of invisible nature that relates all things to each other in an ordered
harmonious pattern. Perhaps this is the meaning of the tale in which the infant Zeus is fed on honey in Crete, and why
honey was the nectar of the gods. Furthermore, the busy bee, following the impulsion of its nature to pollinate the
flowers and gather their nectar to be transformed into honey, was an example of the continual activity required of human beings
to gather the crops and transform them into food. The queen bee, whom all the others serve during their brief lives,
was, in the Neolithic, an epiphany of the Goddess herself." (Layne Redmond)
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