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Bee-Culture at Present: Mecca
Les Bédouins, ou Arabes du désert. Raphael Trans. from Friedreich, Die Symbolik und Mythologie der 255 Natur "There proceedeth a liquor of various colors." There is the following note in the Rev. J. M. Rodwell's translation of the Koran: "The Arabs are curious in and fond of honey. Mecca alone affords eight or nine varieties, green, white, red, and brown" This does not mean that Mecca has that many varieties of bees. Honey differs in color, flavor, and consistency according to the flowers from which it is gathered. Strabo - Geography of Greece, xv. 3 Diana of the Ephesians. The Ancient Empires of the East - A. H. Sayce, p. 223 255 256 "And the Amorites" - Deuteronomy i. 44 "All nations". Psalms cxviii. 10. 12 "Butter and honey" - Isaiah vii. 15. 66 دو My son Proverbs xxiv. 13.14 "How sweet are thy words" - Psalms cxix. 103 . "The judgments of the Lord " - Psalms xix. 9 "Pleasant words " - Proverbs xvi. 24 "Take of the best" - Genesis xliii. II 257 257 258 259 259 0 259 259 Appendix "And take with thee" - 1 Kings xiv. 3 Honey brought to David's army 2 Samuel xvii. 29 Manna and the taste of it" - Exodus xvi. 3I First fruits - 2 Chronicles xxi. 5 Exodus xvi. 31 "Ye shall burn " Leviticus ii. II - Bees unclean Leviticus xi. 22.23 Honey as first fruits, see Cruden's Concordance (com- PAGE 260 260 260 260 260 plete edition) "Honey" 260 "He shall not see" - Job xx. 17 260 "He should have fed thee" Psalms lxxxi. 16 261 "Thus wast thou" - Ezekiel xvi. 13 261 66 - My meat" Ezekiel xvi. 19 261 66 Judah " Ezekiel xxvii. 17 261 Story of Samson - Judges xiv. 261 "He made him ride" - Deuteronomy xxxii. 13 262 "And they gave him" Luke xxiv. 42 262 - 262 "And I went unto" Revelation x. 9.10 In the "Curious History of Insects," by Frank Cowan, we read, "The Septuagint has the following eulogism on the bee in Proverbs vi. 8, which is not found in the Hebrew Scriptures. "Go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and what a noble work she produces, whose labors kings and private men use for their health; she is desired and honored by all, and though weak in strength, yet since she values wisdom she prevails.' - Smith's Dictionary of the Bible." " There were figs and grapes" Warner Library - World's Best Literature. Egypt. Lit. 262 Greek and Roman Bee - see Glock's Symbolik der Bienen • 264-5 "Nor scythe nor famine" Hesiod: Works and Days 266 "With milk and nectar" - Ovid: Meta., bk. i. 266 "The very cradle" - Virg.: Buc. Ecl., iv. 266 "Hyrcania is very fertile " - Strabo : Geog. of Greece, xi. 7 267 metretes = about seven gallons sixty medimni = twelve "Here Mincius" (the river Mincius) - Virg.: Ecl., vii. 267 Appendix PAGE Bees bred from hornets and sun - Columella: Of Husbandry 267 "An olive tree" Homer: Odys., xiii. 123. Bryant's trans. 268 "The priestesses of Ceres" - Porphyry: On the Cave of the Nymphs 268 • . "Above all, venerate" Virg.: Geor., i. 269 Sacrifices to Ceres. Athenæus tells us - Heraclides the Syracusan, in his treatise on Laws, says, that in Syracuse on the principal day of the Thesmophorion festival (held in honor of Ceres) cakes in the form of the female pudendum are made of sesame and honey, and are used throughout all Sicily, being carried about as offerings to the goddess. This recalls certain marriage observances of the ancient Hindus Ceres' priestess torn to pieces - Menzel: Myth. Forsch. "The Moon likewise" - Porphyry: On the Cave of the Nymphs "O blest son " - Pindar: Pyth., iv.