5.00 USD
"The Bee Goddess" ~ A greeting card of the original painting by Emily Balivet, 2013.
The card measures 5x7 and is printed on acid free, archival quality smooth, matte stock...Perfect for framing, too! The card comes with an ivory envelope sealed in a protective cello sleeve.
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The card will be shipped via First Class mail. I combine shipping on multiple purchases.
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"Bees, like all insects that spin cocoons or weave webs, serve as images of the miraculous interconnectedness of life. The intricate cellular structure that secretes the golden essence of life is an image of the network of invisible nature that relates all things to each other in an ordered harmonious pattern. Perhaps this is the meaning of the tale in which the infant Zeus is fed on honey in Crete, and why honey was the nectar of the gods. Furthermore, the busy bee, following the impulsion of its nature to pollinate the flowers and gather their nectar to be transformed into honey, was an example of the continual activity required of human beings to gather the crops and transform them into food. The queen bee, whom all the others serve during their brief lives, was, in the Neolithic, an epiphany of the Goddess herself." ~ Layne Redmond