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The Ancients had several Bee Gods and Goddesses, such as the Lithuanian Bee Goddess Austeja and her husband the Bee God Babilos, the Roman Goddess Mellonia and the Slavic God Zosim; bees were also associated with other Deities such as Artemis, Aphrodite, Brighid, Rhea, and Vishnu. [14]
The bees, hornets, wasps, flies, termites, mosquitos, and spiders, which clung to her emanated forth in a wave over the ranks. When Arunasura was the last daitya remaining on the battlefield, she retreated and sent out all of the insects to attack him.
Bat became strongly associated with the sistrum and the center of her cult was known as the "Mansion of the Sistrum". [3] The sistrum is an ankh -shaped musical instrument , [ 4 ] which was one of the most frequently used sacred instruments in ancient Egyptian temples.
Recalling her brother's advice, Leutogi stirred the ocean, sending waves to Samoa as a signal for help. Taoulupo'o saw the sign and sent his pet white pe'a (bat), supported by the spirits of the dead, to aid her. The white bat, along with the bats of Tonga, saved Leutogi by extinguishing the flames with their water, preventing her execution.
She is the mother of Mixcoatl and is particularly associated with the moth Rothschildia orizaba from the family Saturniidae. [2] Some of her associations are birds and fire. [3] However, she primarily appears in the form of the Obsidian Butterfly. [4] Rothschildia orizaba, the moth genus and species with which the Itzpapalotl goddess is associated
Mellona or Mellonia was an ancient Roman goddess said by St. Augustine to promote the supply of honey (Latin mel, mellis) as Pomona did for apples and Bubona for cattle. [1] Arnobius describes her as "a goddess important and powerful regarding bees, taking care of and protecting the sweetness of honey."
Her name, meaning "the black," suggests that she presided over subterranean nymphs. These three bee maidens with the power of divination and thus speaking truth are described in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes , and the food of the gods is "identified as honey"; [ 7 ] the bee maidens were originally associated with Apollo , and are probably not ...
Mellona or Mellonia, goddess of bees and bee-keeping. Mena or Mene, goddess of fertility and menstruation. Mercury, messenger of the gods and bearer of souls to the underworld, and one of the Dii Consentes. Roman counterpart of the Greek god Hermes. Minerva, goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industries and trades, and one of the Dii Consentes ...