The Exodus account of Israel's forty years wandering in the wilderness, (midvar), is the starting point for our etymological journey into the conceptual connection between a word and a bee, and with some deduction, to arrive at the place where these words are understood to be describing the stars of the Pleiades. The next paragraph is from the website Ancient Hebrew Research Centers entitled Hebrew Lexicon -- Word Studies. And I quote," For forty years God had Israel wander in the wilderness, Insights into why God had chosen the wilderness for their wanderings can be found in the roots of this word. The root word is davar and is most frequently translated as a thing or a word. The original picture painted by this word to the Hebrews is the arrangement of things to create order. Speech is an ordered arrangement of words. In the ancient Hebrew mind words are things and are just as real as food or other things. When a word is spoken to another it is placed in the ears no different to when food is given to another it is placed in the mouth. The Hebrew name Devorah, (Deborah), means bee and is the feminine form of the word davar. Bees are a community of insects which live in a perfectly arranged order as its ecosystem is in harmony and balance. By placing Israel in this environment God is teaching them balance, order, and harmony." End quotes. According to Bill Casselman's web sit entitled A Swarm of Bee Words, deborah is named after the sting of the bee, i.e. deborah translates as a stinging bee. Casselman traces the word Deborah back to the Semitic root dbr and one of its related forms dabar, meaning word, sting, and goad. Casselman also sites the Arabic and Proto- Semitic dabar as meaning a sting and an ox goad. The connection of the stinging bee and an ox goad can be alternatively construed as the bee stinging the ox. Because the constellation of Scorpio is the image of a flower and the ecliptic antipodal position of the Pleiades constellation is the image of a bee alighting onto the flower, we should also focus attention on the fact that the Pleiades are on the ox constellation of Taurus. If the Pleiades are a bee image and found on the ox constellation, it is within the realm of imagination that the ox may be stung. The modern scientific name of the bee is Apis Melliferus, and its etymology is from the two Latin words Mellifferus, meaning honey producing, and Apis meaning a bee. Apis was the Egyptian ox that contained the Ka, or life force, of Osiris. The Pleiades were held to be the seeds of the life force and they are in the ox constellation of Taurus. According to Bill Casselman, like the Hebrew deborah, meaning both a word and a sting, the Latin for word is verbum, the root being verb- to whip, lash, sting and the cattle goad. In chapter three I noted the Greek symbolism of Io being harassed by the gadfly was representing Io as Taurus and the gadfly as the bite of the Pleiades. Clearly the Greeks cast the Pleiades in a stinging like role for their mythology. While Melissa is the Greek word for bee, meaning honey bee, they made a very subtle reference to their knowledge of the association between the bee and the similarly Hebrew concept of a word by using gemetria. As we covered in chapter two, the "word" of God uses gemetria in the very first seven words of the Bible to form a geometrical image related to the seven Pleiades. This geometrical formation is contingent on the base number being 73, which has a mete in the base with the number 37. If you multiply the two numbers you arrive at the total count for the geometrical image of the first seven words of the Bible, i.e. 37 x 73 = 2701. Well, the Greeks had the word logos to mean a word, which has a gemetria value of 373, an allusion to the key numbers of Genesis 1:1. So, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin all have allusions between a bee and its association to the concept of a word, but with the Greek and Latin we have also made the connection to the Pleiades. Let's find the connection between the Hebrew deborah and the Pleiades.

• published: 01 Mar 2012
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