Friday, October 12, 2018

Apollo And Bees

According to this report, bees stop buzzing during a solar eclipse:

https://qz.com/1419970/how-bees-reacted-to-the-2017-solar-eclipse/

The ancients recognized a link between the sun god Apollo and bees:

The Homeric Hymn to Apollo acknowledges that Apollo's gift of prophecy first came to him from three bee maidens, usually but doubtfully identified with the Thriae, a trinity of pre-Hellenic Aegean bee goddesses.

You can read the rest @
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_(mythology)

Perhaps they noticed the eclipse-bee connection long ago.

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