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| Oriol Dancer <<>> Earth maintenance artist |
"Bee Good! I am the Feminine Stinger."
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| Brooke Medicine Eagle |
I’ve been paying attention to the little bees that live here. There seem to be so few, and I pray for them
and all their relatives every day. Brooke
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| Joy Harjo |
"Remind me and I'll send a bee and flower photo to you. As a small child I played with bees, until
some adult saw me and freaked. Joy"
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| Nancy Macko <>artist & professor of art |
"The history behind doing Lore of the Bee Priesteess is quite interesting
as it represents 12 years of gathering footage from travels to ancient matriarchal sites and sites where bees might have been
worshipped. The piece is really about the feminine odyssey."
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| traditional Mayan honey gatherers |
"We do many preparations and give offerings to our Bee relatives before going out to gather
the honey from them in the rainforest. The honey is very sacred to us." Martha Dominguz, Mayan elder
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| Rigoberta Menchu' Tum |
"Rigoberta, you named your book of childrens' stories The Honey Jar. Can you please tell us
why you chose that title?" We will go to speak with Rigoberta about the disappearing bees. Rigoberta Menchu
Tum is a Mayan elder who was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1992 for her autobiography, I, Rigoberta, in which she
tells her story of the Guatemalan holocaust.
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| Drumming Bee Priestess |
"The ancient Bee Priestesses, called the Melissa in Greek or the Deborahs in
Hebrew, served the Bee Goddesses: Aphrodite, Artemis, Cybele, Demeter, Persephone, Rhea, Ariadne, Neith, even the Virgin Mary
and all are associated with the frame drum!!" Layne Redmond describing the Bee Preistess pilgrimage to Crete.
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| Dr. Eva Crane |
Eva Crane is the esteemed two-legged matriarch of the bee world. She served
as director of the International Bee Research Association for 35 years and has written several definitive books,
including The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting. "I realized that mine is probably the last generation
able to see the world's rich variety of traditional beekeeping, and to talk with those who inherited its techniques and skills
from their forefathers."
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| Tony Sorensen <>project science advisor |
" We won't know the extent of damage (due to the disappearing bees) until the harvest comes
in. Actually, all these huge changes are directed by the Sun. Alterations in UV rays could be affecting
the bees' navigation abilities. I really like the Bee Goddess!"
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| Michael Stearns - -soundtrack producer |
"If the listener is open, music becomes a magic carpet carrying the participant on a flight of becoming."
The film, "BARAKA", is among Michael's many credits..
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