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The Honey Trap
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Meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites,
must keep alive the memory of those ancient ways and
- H.P. Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu
instructions for knowing
the "hsp", or sacred garden of the bee in the other world
- a domain believed to contain
the tree of the golden apples of immortality.
- Andrew Gough
The Sacred Bee in Ancient Egypt
Should you be so lucky to hear whisperin’
It is an invitation for you
- Clutch
Drink to the Dead
nectar (n.)
1550s, from Latin nectar, from Greek nektar, name of the drink of the gods,
which is said to be a compound of nek- “death” (see necro-) + -tar “overcoming,”
from PIE *tere- (2) “to cross over, pass through, overcome” (see through).
Meaning “sweet liquid in flowers” first recorded c. 1600.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=nectar
Who wants that honey?
- Smashing Pumpkins
Cherub Rock
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An ominous droning grew nearer and louder as Louis – like the proverbial moth to a flame – found himself inexplicably drawn closer and closer to certain doom. He pushed onward through the curtain of heart-shaped leaves.
From this new perspective under the dream-tree’s canopy, he could discern green and red fruit hanging heavily in grape-like clusters from the tree’s mighty boughs. His stomach grumbled, his hunger unaware this was only a dream. With a well-timed leap, Louis managed to snatch one of the lowest drooping fruits.
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fig (n.)
early 13c., from Old French figue (12c.), from Old Provencal figa,
from Vulgar Latin *fica, from Latin ficus “fig tree, fig,” which,
with Greek sykon, Armenian t’uz is “prob. fr. a common Mediterranean source”
[Buck], possibly a Semetic one (compare Phoenician pagh “half-ripe fig”).
A reborrowing of a word that had been taken directly from Latin as Old English fic.
The insulting sense of the word in Shakespeare, etc. (A fig for a …) is 1570s,
in part from fig as “small, valueless thing,”
but also from Greek and Italian use of their versions of the word
as slang for “vulva,” apparently because of how a ripe fig looks
when split open [Rawson, Weekley].
Giving the fig (French faire la figue, Spanish dar la higa)
was an indecent gesture of ancient provenance,
made by putting the thumb between two fingers or into the mouth,
with the intended effect of the modern gesture of “flipping the bird”
(see bird (n.3)). Also compare sycophant.
Use of fig leaf in figurative sense of “flimsy disguise” (1550s) is from Gen. iii:7.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=fig
Figs are not actually fruits
but a mass of inverted flowers and seeds
that are pollinated by a species of tiny symbiotic wasps.
The male fig flower is the only place where the female wasp can lay her eggs,
at the bottom of a narrow opening in the fruit
that she shimmies her way through.
The baby wasps mature inside the figs
into males that have sharp teeth but no wings
and females ready to fly.
They mate,
the males chew through the special fig pollen holders
and drop them down to the females,
chew holes in the skin of the fig to let the females out,
and then die.
The females, armed with the pollen, fly off
in search of new male figs to lay her eggs in.
In the process some of the female wasps land on female figs
that don’t have the special egg receptacle
but trick the female into shimmying inside.
As the female wasp slides through the narrow passage in the fig
her wings are ripped off (egg laying is a one-way mission)
and while she is unsuccessful in laying her eggs,
she successfully pollinates the female flower.
The female flower then ripens into a fig that you can get at a supermarket,
digesting the trapped wasp inside with special enzymes!
For the females that managed to lay their eggs the life cycle continues
with a new brood of tiny wasps ready to mate and pollinate.
- www.scienceblogs.com/oscillator/2010/09/07/edible-symbiosis/
The family Agaonidae has been recently updated
to include all the pollinating fig wasps
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_wasp
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The droning stopped immediately. The sudden silence was eerie and foreboding. Alarmed, he glanced around cautiously. Louis scanned his surroundings while he split open the fruit with his thumbs to get at the sweet meat inside.
A sudden storm of insects spewed forth, not unlike a genie emerging in an angry thundercloud after having his bottle rubbed the wrong way, or bloodthirsty pirates streaming out from their dark ship’s hull to attack a sleepy coastal town. Shocked, Louis dropped the fig and fell backwards as he attempted to avoid the surging swarm. Louis swore he heard snarled, whispered words in the mad, buzzing whirlwind of miniature beings raging around him.
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wasp (n.)
Old English wæps, wæsp “wasp,” altered
(probably by influence of Latin vespa) from Proto-Germanic *wabis-
(cognates: Old Saxon waspa, Middle Dutch wespe, Dutch wesp,
Old High German wafsa, German Wespe, Danish hveps),
from PIE *wopsa-/*wospa- “wasp” (cognates: Latin vespa,
Lithuanian vapsa, Old Church Slavonic vosa “wasp,”
Old Irish foich “drone”), perhaps from *webh- “weave” (see weave (v.)).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=wasp
whisper (v.)
Old English hwisprian “speak very softly, murmur”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=whisper
hum (v.)
late 14c., hommen “make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment,”
later hummen “to buzz, drone” (early 15c.), probably of imitative origin.
Sense of “sing with closed lips”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hum
hymn (n.)
c. 1000, from Old French ymne and Old English ymen,
both from Latin hymnus “song of praise,”
from Greek hymnos “song or ode in praise of gods or heroes,”
used in Septuagint for various Hebrew words
meaning “song praising God.”
Possibly a variant of hymenaios “wedding song,”
from Hymen, Greek god of marriage
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hymn
Hymen
1580s, Greek god of marriage, represented as a youth carrying a torch and a veil,
perhaps etymologically “the joiner,” literally “the one who sews” (two together)
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hymen
they sewed fig leaves together
- Genesis 3: 7
The King James Bible
weaving in and out
- Cake
Comfort Eagle
the reference on her temple inscription to ‘lifting a veil’ is intriguing,
for Bees are often called hymenoptera,
stemming from the word hymen, meaning “veil winged”,
representing that which concealed the holy parts of a temple,
as well as the veil or hymen of a woman’s reproductive organ.
-http://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_bee1/
Some proposed PIE roots for wife include *weip-
“to twist, turn, wrap,”
perhaps with sense of “veiled person”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=wife
weird (adj.)
c. 1400, “having power to control fate, from weird (n.),
from Old English wyrd “fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates,” literally “that which comes,’
from Proto-Germanic *wurthiz (source also of Old Saxon wurd,
Old High German wurt “fate,” Old Norse urdr “fate, one of the three Norns”),
from Old English weordan “to become”), from root *wer- (2) “to turn, bend.”
For sense development from “turning” to “becoming,” compare phrase turn into “become.”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=weird
And the shadow ship started to emerge from its shadow.
And there was ever so tiny time distortion
And reality twisted... slightly.
- A.E. Von Vogt
Earth Factor X
sting (v.)
Old English stingan “to stab, pierce, or prick with a point”
(of weapons, insects, plants, etc.) from Proto-Germanic *stingan
(cognates: Old Norse stinga, Old High German stungen “to prick,”
Gothic us-stagg “to prick out,” Old High Geman stanga,
German stange “pole, perch,” German Stengel “stalk, stem”),
perhaps from PIE *stengh-, nasalized form of root *stegh- “to prick, sting”
(cognates: Old English stagga “stag,” Greek stokhos “pointed stake”).
Specialized to insects late 15c. Intransitive sense “be sharply painful” is from 1848.
Slang meaning “to cheat, swindle” is from 1812.
Old English past tense stang, past participle stungen; the past tense later leveled to stung.
sting (n.)
Old English stincg, steng “act of stinging, puncture, thrust,” from the root of sting (v.).
Meaning “sharp-pointed organ capable of inflicting a painful puncture wound” is from late 14c.
Meaning “carefully planned theft or robbery” is attested from 1930;
sense of “police undercover entrapment” first attested 1975.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=sting
A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/honeytrap
Who wants that honey?
- Smashing Pumpkins
Cherub Rock
I’ve got a secret, I cannot say
- Queens of the Stone Age
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
FH: And this is the metamessage.
WM: Yes… the hidden message underneath
- Frank Herbert interviewed by Willis McNelly, 3 Feb 1969
The phrase “Ask the wild bee what the druids knew” flashed through my mind
and the thought occurred that this was not just humming.
Rather, it was the wisdom of the ages
that the bee shamans had whispered into the hive over centuries,
and it was spoken aloud now
by this man chanting in the language of the bees.
Some form of information was being
conducted directly to my brain. I had become
a conduit for this knowledge,
yet I knew not what
electricity compelled it to me in such a way.
No distinct words were discernible within
the sound itself, yet at some level my body
just knew
the precious secrets
that were being imparted to it
and my mind was filling up. Images, poetry,
snapshots of human history, scenes from worlds to come
flew across my mind
in snippets of awareness, like clouds across the moon.
The tanging and the chanting continued
- Simon Buxton
The Shamanic Way of the Bee
tang (n.)
Mid-14c., “serpent’s tongue” (thought to be a stinging organ),
later “sharp extension of a metal blade” (1680s), from Scandinavian source
akin to Old Norse tangi “spit of land; pointed end by which a blade is driven into a handle,”
from Proto-Germanic *tang-, from PIE *denk- “to bite” (see tongs).
Influenced in some sense by tongue (n.).
Figurative sense of “a sharp taste” is first recorded mid-15c.;
that of “suggestion, trace” is from 1590s. The fish (1734) so called for their spines.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=tang
Ron: Snake Language.
Harry: I spoke a different language? But I didn’t realize…
how can I speak a different language without knowing I can?
Hermione: I don’t know, Harry. But it sounded like you were
egging the snake on
- Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (movie, 2002)
bite your tongue
- Queens of the Stone Age
Burn the Witch
I think you already know
How far I’d go not to say
You know the art isn’t gone
- Queens of the Stone Age
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
"The secrets may die with me," she said,
tying the thread around my wrist.
- www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170906-the-last-surviving-sea-silk-seamstress
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The dream-swarm’s dreadful droning diminished as they dispersed harmlessly, their hummed hymn replaced by the mournful moaning and groaning of timber and rope straining with a heavy weight overhead. A limb on the spirit tree began to shift, morphing into a mast’s spar as it swung into position to deliver its struggling cargo to the waiting hold.
The net suspended from the spar squirmed and broke open as it passed in front of Louis. Silvery fish rained from above and flooded onto the deck. A man twisted in the air above them, trapped by the netting tangled around his feet. The fish-man flopped about frantically, before slowly growing deathly still. The man’s eye’s suddenly bugged out wide in fear. His mouth gaped open. His jaw moved, but no words issued forth, only his last gasping breath. And then the fire in his eyes dimmed to nothing.
Louis stared back at the hanged man in disbelief. Louis momentarily lost his mind. He stared at his own dead body, his doppelganger flipped upside down, caught in a fisherman’s net. Mindlessly, he screamed, wordlessly. A silent blackness deeper than shadow radiated outward from behind closed lips. Like a swarm of nothing-bees sallying forth to pollinate and collect nectar, his unheard words spewed like a fountain of dark sparks seeking to set the world alight.
The dream déjà vu Louis experienced is known amongst practitioners of the Traide™ as the "Foreshadowing". The madness in his dreams – the whispering, the buzzing, the droning voices he heard – Louis would forget it all almost completely as soon as he awoke, but they would return again and again. And again and again and again.
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remember (That it’s all in your head)
- Gorillaz
Clint Eastwood
You think it’s fictional? Mystical? Maybe
spiritual hero who appears in you
- Gorillaz
Clint Eastwood
who are born to enter a more advanced path;
- Carpathian Shamans – Ukraine Molfar & Polish Whisperer’
Eldermountain.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/Carpathian-shaman-healing-magical-rites
whisperin’
- Clutch
Drink to the Dead
today is tomorrow
And tomorrow today
And yesterday is weaving in and out
- Cake
Comfort Eagle
And the shadow ship started to emerge from its shadow.
And there was ever so tiny time distortion.
And reality twisted... slightly
- A.E. Von Vogt
Earth Factor X
as if a part of her were sinking under the brutal possession of a dark god
- Simon Buxton
The Shamanic Way of the Bee
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