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I do not remember reading any of this in your excellent articles, Andy - so does anyone believe any of the following to have any veracity?

Something interesting that ties in all of the cult of the dead speculation with bees and egypt ... honey used as embalming fluid.

Here is a scholarly article of someone reproducing the effect:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=6&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smj.org.sa%2FPDFFiles%2FNov04%2F08Embalming20040279.pdf&ei=00POSqyLAYPQ8QabspSDBA&rct=j&q=honey+ambrosia++mummification+&usg=AFQjCNHDwuIVmLhYxbTEcOR-xF4JClUKJA&sig2=WG78iDvzyjM2NlIBE_34ww

Somewhere - I do not remember exactly where now - somebody was also relating a rumor of "mellifed man", where corpses embalmed in honey were used for medicinal purposes. There is an entry at Wickedpedia - does anyone know if that is true?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_Man

And how about Ambrosia? Food of the Gods - amber, honey, and mummies (oh my!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/Ambrosia.html

Hi there Shepherdess....how about the Assyrians...how about the old Spartan Kings ....how about Alexander the Great...
.........all embalmed in honey.

Absolutely....Yes!

post script.

Good thread!

I had seen that about Alexander the Great - maybe that is how I got on it in the first place, who knows - but not the others. Also somewhere I remember about a death ritual that involved opening the mouth, and it was relative to honey. I will have to look for that again and post a link.

This could explain the reports of sweet smelling corpses. The idea to use honey maybe came from seeing insects preserved in amber? Amber also has a fragrance when heated and can be heated to a less solid state.

Shepherdess, thank you for this thread. I only touched on this briefly, you are right. Mostly in reference to the early egyptians using honey as a form of mumification and the legend that Alexander the Great was burried using honey....

Thank you again. Cool link!

All the best,

Andrew

This may sound a bit odd, but the Promised Land was described as a Land of milk + honey, so why would any sane person waste a fortune on such an important source of nourishment.?

This shows a nasty disrespect for the work of those bees and to the inhabitants whose honey it was meant to sustain over the winter months.

Those greedy bastards who perp'd the wastage of all of that honey will find out what that perfidy merited them.