Bulls and Bees in the Bugonia Ritual
bugonia ritual, bulls and bees It was written the Minoan said the bull (apis) sprouted bees. I could not figure out how...until now? ... Trace "...Bees were special and peculiar to the ancients. Their presence in the myth dates back to times much earlier than Rome . They were of considerable importance in Egyptian and Minoan beliefs. Then they fascinated authors such as Publius Virgil Maro or Pliny the Elder . The bees had a divine element in them and were surrounded by a mystical aura of mystery. It is best expressed by the so-called Bugonia ritual : It was common in the ancient world to believe that bee swarms were born from the bodies of dead bulls . This is where the aforementioned name comes from – Bugonia , in Greek βοῦς , meaning cattle , and γονή , gonad – means so “born from cattle”. This ritual, as a natural or man-made event, was aimed at creating or restoring a bee swarm. In the literature of the Roman period, we have much evidence ...