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Bee-Culture at Present: Glock

The two fables - see Glock: Symbolik der Bienen The Bee's Dream - The Warner Library of the World's Best Literature. Indian Lit.

Honey at the wedding--see Menzel's Myth. Forsch., where it is related that bees clustering upon the pudendum is used symbolically in India to signify fruitfulness, honey in marriage celebrations having a similar significance • We are also told that not only the brow and the mouth, but also the eyelids, ears, and pudendum of the bride are touched with honey accompanied by benedictions. See Menzel's Myth. Forsch., Glock's Symbolik der Bienen, and Religious Ceremonies of Hindus and Brahmans, Colebrooke Essays. In the following description of a bridal chamber, taken from Bana's Harsa-Carita, the presence of the bees is no doubt significant: "About its portals were figured the spirits of Love and Joy. Bees, going before like friends, raised a hubbub. The charmed lamps, which lighted it, swayed in the wind of the bees' wing." Egyptian Hieroglyphics - Saml. Sharpe, 1861. Dict. of Hieroglyphics - Saml. Birch. Erman's Life of Ancient Egypt. Wilkinson - Ancient Egyptians "On the festival day" - From the love-songs of a Turin papyrus: Erman's Life of Anct. Egypt.