Relief of a honey beeDetail of a sunken-relief depicting a honey bee from an inscription in Karnak T
Relief of a honey beeDetail of a sunken-relief depicting a honey bee from an inscription in Karnak Temple Complex. According to egyptian mythology, honey bees were the tears of the sun god Ra. It is used as an ideogram for “bee” (bjt), but most frequently as part of the title of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, rendered nswt-bjtj (interpreted as “He of the Sedge and the Bee”). -- source link
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