In the ancient Mediterranean world, the frame drum is associated with the Bee Priestesses, known in Greek as the Melissa and in Hebrew as the Deborahs.
They served the Bee Goddesses. Many of the bee priestesses functioned as oracles. The drums were said to dispel negative influences and summon and dismiss the sacred bees. Women and honeybees have been in deep symbiosis for millennia.
Priestesses of the temples throughout the Mediterranean were called Melissae, meaning "the bees." Honey was medicine, ritual, and devotion.
This bond was more than myth and metaphor; it was lived, embodied, sacred, and relational... If you care about food and herbal medicine systems, pollination, and the greater ecology, or are a frame drummer, facilitator, priestess, oracle, or teacher, this master class will give you insights and inspiration into why the ancient relationship between woman, bees, and drums is calling modern women as we venture into the technologically unknown future…
Click here to learn more in Krista’s 2-part master class - The Bee Goddess and the Sacred Drum
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