Bee

• Bee is used in Medicine.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats bees among insects with honey and wax chapters. A named bee in that encyclopedia, not beeswax as the material already walked and not a hive dump alone.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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• Honey is historically related to Bee.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats honey as the bees’ product in Roman natural history. A named honey beside bee, not wax as hive stuff alone and not ambrosia as divine food.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Nahua tradition

• Bee appears in Nahua tradition.

  Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records xicotli / pipiolin speech in Book 11 insect speech — named bee and honey-insect speech. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.

  from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

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Shinto

• Bee appears in Shinto.

  The Kojiki places bees among the stinging creatures in Susanoo’s hair that Ōkuninushi must remove. A named bee ordeal in that compilation, not Pliny pharmacy bee and not a hive dump alone.

  from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968

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Islam

• Bee appears in Islam.

  The Qur’an names the bee in sura 16 (al-Naḥl) and describes its houses and varied drink. A named insect in that revelation, not Pliny’s bee pharmacy already walked and not honey as a separate missing id.

  from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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Roman religion

• Bee appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid Book 7 seats the bee swarm that settles on Latinus’s sacred laurel as an omen of strangers and a new lord. A named bee omen in that epic, not honey as a food dump and not a hive-craft handbook.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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• Skep is used in Bee.

  Columella’s De Re Rustica Book 9 seats woven and straw hives that house bees among apiary craft. A named skep in that bee work under English lemma for Latin alvus/alveare speech, not bee-smoker as later bellows chrome refused and not honeycomb as the numbers-forms cell figure refused.

  from Columella · De Re Rustica, 1st century CE

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Hellenic religion

• Bee appears in Hellenic religion.

  Pausanias notes bees and honey among sanctuary offerings and local cult speech. A named bee in that periegesis, not Pliny insect-pharmacy alone and not beeswax as a material dump.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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