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The God Ray wept and the tears from his eyes fell on the ground and turned into a bee.

The bee made his honeycomb and busied himself with the flowers of every plant, and so wax was made, and also honey out of the tears of Ray.

Hey, welcome to Stuffed Of Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb, and I'm Joe McCormick, and that was a beautiful little reading, Robert. What was that?

That quote comes to us from a 1975 translation of a 300 BCE bit of writing.

It's essentially cursive hieroglyphs, which is called a hieratic writing, and more specifically this wonderful little excerpt comes from a book titled The Tears of Ray, Be Keeping an Ancient Egypt by Jean Kritsky.

And at the end of this episode, we're going to chat with the author just a little bit about some of the material we're discussing here, and about the book The Tears of Ray.

This was a very interesting book. Robert and I both read it for this episode, and it essentially it covers the relationship between the ancient Egyptians and the honey bee.

The complex economic, religious, and scientific relationship, you might say, going back and forth between them. But we should start, I guess, with Ray, because that's the focus of this little poem segment you read at the beginning.

Who is Ray? Ray, you may be more familiar with the name Ra, Ra, the Sun God, the creator God of the ancient Egyptians, as often depicted as sort of like a bird's head, the head of a falcon, but also a sun disk that travels across the sky, and then of course dusk.

It gets eaten and then goes into the underworld. Well, actually, I think those are two different myths, right? It goes into the underworld and then comes back out, but there's another version where Ray gets eaten and then gets re-birthed.

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