In days gone by honey was exclusively used by Pharaoh’s, Kings and Queens.  Peasants or common people were barred from its sweetness. In some cases the penalty was death for tasting the “Nectar of the Gods”

Ancient Greeks associated lips anointed with honey with the gift of eloquence and even of prescience. The priestess at Delphi was the “Delphic Bee”.

The area now comprising Israel and the Palestine autonomous region is often referred to as “the land of milk and honey.” (Exodus 3:8)

Honey bees, signifying immortality and resurrection, were royal emblems of the Merovingian, revived by Napoleon.

A community of honey bees has often been employed throughout history by political theorists as a model of human society.