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Mount Eryx

Aphrodite, the n5miph-goddess of midsummer, would destroy the sacred king by tearing out his sexual organs just as the queen-bee destroys the drone.Her Priestesses displayed a golden honeycomb at her shrine on Mount Eryx. [Pg.80]

Butes is the most famous beekeeper of antiquity. He was a priest to Athene on Mount Eryx who represented the love-god Phanes, son of the Triple Goddess. The Greeks often depicted Phanes as a loudly buzzing bee called Ericepaius. ... [Pg.80]

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