The Honey-Makers

Half natural history, half literature: how the honey-bee actually works — tongue, wings, sting, swarm — and then three thousand years of what people have believed about her, from the Vedas to mead.

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In Egypt and the East: Brugsch

According to Brugsch Bey, an inscription on a tomb in the necropolis of Abydos in Middle Egypt reads thus : "The king appoints that a sum of three and a half pounds of silver from the treasury of the temple of Osiris be given annually in order to cover a daily demand for one measure of honey to be used at the ceremony of the worship of the dead for his beloved Naromantha." 1 Wild fig-tree. 4 Brugsch also describes a contract in which it is stated : "I take you to wife and bind myself to furnish to you annually twelve pots of honey."

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