Sacred Path of the Bee

[jsf]

At 55:29 begins a very interesting presentation about priestesses beekeepers in ancient times.

A lot of symbols are connected to bees, and it seems to have shamanic roots.

By example, the bindu, the omphalos / sacred stone (meteorites?), pomegranate, and the frame drum.

What is interesting too is the connection too Delphi and the Dionysian mysteries.

I've found this video after reading The Shamanic Way of the Bee, by Simon Buxton
_http://www.amazon.fr/The-Shamanic-Way-Bee-Practices/dp/1594771197.

So here it is : _https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd8IeQBqnXI


And here are other sites on this topic :

_layneredmond.com (Layne)
_https://www.facebook.com/LayneRedmond
_https://www.youtube.com/user/hatnofer/videos [videos of drums]
_holybeepress.com (Debra)
_https://www.facebook.com/pages/Holy-Bee-Press/197582093608891

When drumers where women
_http://www.amazon.com/When-Drummers-Were-Women-Spiritual/dp/0609801287/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378502505&sr=1-1&keywords=when+the+drummers+were+women
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8oOnwYrsWE0

Princesses of the Mediterranean in the Dawn of History
_http://www.amazon.com/Princesses-Mediterranean-History-Maria-Xanthopoulou/dp/9607064976

Why the Frame Drum Was at the Core of Ancient Mediterranean Spiritual Rites by Layne Redmond
_http://sacredpathofthebee.tumblr.com/post/9204959799/ancientmediterraneanrites

edit : fb link added

 

[Approaching Infinity]

Whoa, that's a lot of links! ;) Do you think you could summarize a bit for us, jsf? How do the symbols you mention relate to bees, for example? And how does it relate to the work?

 

[jsf]

SHOTW2 mentions the Delphic mysteries, and the Caesar topic mentions a link between stoicism and Mithraism.

[Diogenes] goes on to say that Pythagoras wrote three books (...) Then he mentions that Aristoxenus said that Pythagoras derived his moral doctrines from the Delphic priestess, Themistoclea. In short, at least one of his teachers was a woman.

(...)

The priestess of the Didymas's sanctuary [next to Delphi], seated above a sacred spring, would make pronouncements interpreted by the Branchidae. (Does that oracle sitting over a sacred spring in a temple remind you of anything ? Like the stones and wells in our discussion of the origins of Judaism and Islam above ? Recent excavations by a German team of archaeologists have uncovered a major sanctuary dedicated to Artemis, with the kay ritual focus being water.)

(...)

[Apollo] was the patron of Delphi -- the prophetic deity of the Oracle.

(...)

It seems that the oracular cult goes back to Mycenaean times, and in historical times the priests of Delphi were referred to as "the double axe man", which relates them to the Minoans as well.

Bees and womens seems closely related to those traditions, and to the "occidental" form of shamanism (post-Atlantean ?). Simon Buxton is interesting for that same reason.