Honey is an animal product made by bees.

• history
• nutritional information
• selection
• storage
• preparation
• magick correspondences and uses
• Goddesses and deities

history:

    History: Emperor Nero of the Roman Empire served his guests a mixture of ice and honey.

nutritional information:

    Unfiltered, raw honey contains many phytonutrients and enzymes.

    “Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.”, Pythagoras (Greek mathematician). Pythagoras ate bread and honey for breakfast and raw vegetables for supper. He also paid fishermen to throw their catch back into the sea.

cooking information:

selection:

    It is important to use raw, unfiltered, uncooked, unpasteurized, organic honey. The heavily processed honey sold by large food corporations is essentially candy.

    It is also important to use local honey. Local honey is made from the pollen of local plants and therefore helps with immunizing for local conditions, including help in preventing local allergies.

storage:

    Storage: Honey doesn’t go bad. Honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs from more than 5,000 years ago is still edible.

preparation:

    Honey is much healthier if it is raw and not cooked or heated.

    Juicing: Hot toddies (singular, hot toddy) are made with honey and lemon juice in hot water. Optionally add brandy or whiskey.

magickal correspondences and uses:

    Western element: water

    Magickal uses: attracting happiness, fertility, purification, romance

deities associated with honey:

• Artemis (Greek Goddess)
• Ea (Babylonian God)
• Kama (Hindu God)
• Min (Kemetic/ancient Egyptian God)

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