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An edition of The tears of Re (2015)

The tears of Re

beekeeping in ancient Egypt

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According to Egyptian mythology, when the ancient Egyptian sun god Re cried, his tears turned into honey bees upon touching the ground. For this reason, the honey bee was sacrosanct in ancient Egyptian culture. From the art depicting bees on temple walls to the usage of beeswax as a healing ointment, the honey bee was a pervasive cultural motif in ancient Egypt because of its connection to the sun god Re. Gene Kritsky delivers the first book to examine the relationship between the honey bee and ancient Egyptian culture, through the lenses of linguistics, archeology, religion, health, and econo.

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Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
133

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Subjects

Honey, Bee culture, Bee products, History, Egypt, history

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Egypt

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Table of Contents

Beekeeping begins
The delight of Re: beekeeping during the Old Kingdom
Instability and reunification: beekeeping during the Middle Kingdom
The age of empire: beekeeping during the New Kingdom
The Saite period
The Greco-Roman period
The honey bee hieroglyph
The administration and economics of Egyptian beekeeping
Bees and food
Honey and healing
Bees, gods, and feasts
The magic of beeswax
The afterlife of ancient Egyptian beekeeping.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-130) and index.

Other Titles
Beekeeping in ancient Egypt

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
638/.10962
Library of Congress
SF531.E3 K75 2015, SF531.E3K75 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 133 pages
Number of pages
133

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27206005M
ISBN 10
019936138X
ISBN 13
9780199361380
LCCN
2015020031
OCLC/WorldCat
907657727

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