Summary
There’s been a lot of buzz around bees, especially in folklore and mythology! From Ancient Egypt and Greece to Hinduism and Celtic folklore, the relationship between bees and humans has been considered divine - so we’re talking about the good friends, the bees!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of insects, injury, child endangerment, cannibalism, death, dismemberment, animal attacks, and sex.
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Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm going to |
| 0:03.0 | I'm |
| 0:04.0 | a |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Welcome to Spirit's podcast, a buzzy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink |
| 0:39.8 | and learn something about bees and a new story from around the world. I'm so excited about |
| 0:45.1 | this episode. I can't stop talking. It's bees. It's bees. That's Amanda. I'm Julia, and we're |
| 0:50.4 | talking about bees this week. Hurray! Now, Julia, famously, you know that as a child, my imaginary friend was not like a dragon |
| 0:58.5 | or like another child or anything. |
| 1:01.7 | No, it was an anthropomorphic bee named Buzzard Bee. |
| 1:04.5 | So I have never been so excited for an episode. |
| 1:08.1 | Well, Amanda, like, I think we've been on a little bit of a gardening kick |
| 1:12.5 | and theme these past few months. A lot of it is because you and I have both been spending a lot of |
| 1:16.3 | time getting our gardens ready. And now we're like putting plants outside. We're starting to |
| 1:21.2 | see things flower and everything. So I'm paying a lot more attention to the pollinators in my |
| 1:27.0 | backyard, right? And it makes sense that we have to pay attention to the pollinators in my backyard, right? |
| 1:28.1 | And it makes sense that we have to pay attention to the pollinators because we really couldn't |
| 1:32.0 | grow half the things that we grow if it wasn't for the pollinators. |
| 1:35.5 | Shout out. |
| 1:36.1 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:36.7 | Humans have had like a very interesting relationship with pollinators, especially bees, for |
| 1:42.2 | literally millennia, plural millennia. |
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