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These are really cool. Especially this one, it looks like angel wings made of honeycomb:
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cutting away the wax over the image, it seems nearly impossible to fake the fine edges of wax the bees make without trying, apparently. Any melting job would leave blobs or imperfections, but the bees do it perfectly every time. This is a good example of one of nature's miracles. And that makes it very appropriate for icons!
The Eastern Church icon tradition is to portray an image that helps the viewer imagine he's looking through a portal or window into eternity, and when I see how the bees framed these icons, it makes me think that the bees were seeing something there that caused them to stop and look, such that they didn't want to stop looking, and so they left it open so they could come back and look some more later. In any event, what they left makes me want to come back and look later, too!
Does anyone know the translation of the Greek words at the bottom?
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Topic: Honey Bees Revere Holy Icons? (Read 2605 times)