The Melissae were the bee priestesses of the temple of Demeter, in ancient Greece, responsible for the pollination of sex magic to initiate the kings and rulers.
Words and vocals by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
Lyrics:
I don’t know how you
Got through my guard dogs,
My electric fences,
My watchtowers
Sweeping the wastes
With their searchlights,
And my barbed wire
Minefields.
Maybe you tunnelled up
From the Underworld.
Digging your way
Through The Wasteland
Of the long dead poets
With their yellowed scripts,
The sleeping Rulers
And dried up whores.
Through the bleak nights
Of sorrow.
How long were you down there,
Counting the rhymes
And the reasons,
Casting the Katha and
Catching the cadence
Of the old bards’ drums?
Juggling the genes, and
Scanning a measure,
The apis, the apex
The apogee of the helix,
Or a metre, a ladder
To bring you out
Into the Sun.
That would explain why
I didn’t see you until
It was too late.
I was sipping mead
With Ah Muzen Cab
When you reared up,
Hooded, at my lap.
“No mortal man has
Ever Me unveiled,” I warned.
“Sup from my jar,
And you die.”
With barely a beat
You lifted my veil
And took what was yours.
© Copyright Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, Samhain 2023
Music: Meditative Oud 112719 by Daniel Yan on Pixabay
Cover Art: Divine Chaos Engine by Karol Bak, Jean Deville, Gustav Klimt, and Vincent Van Gogh, fractal structures
Further information:
"Bee shamanism may be one of the oldest human religions. The bee, as a shamanic totem, is incredibly ancient. Bringers of honey, the bee's spiritual meaning is beneficence, co-operation and bounty. An essentially matriarchal society, a colony of bees consists of around 50k female bees at the height of summer, with around 500 drones and one single egg layer in the darkness, the Queen.
"Tantalisingly, a Queen Bee knows how to make the sperm meet her eggs, and some of the most prominent of the Melissae rituals involve fertility enhancing and diminishing meditations and herbs.
"Could it be that these women delib..
