Apparently, human beings started to hunt for Honey at least 10,000 years ago, as a cave in Valencia, Spain shows. In which two female Honey-hunters collecting honey. In the ancient Egyptian, they used it for embalming the dead, and to the fertility of the god Min, were offered Honey.
The religious importance is also important. In Hinduism, honey is one of the five elixirs of immortality. To Jewish, it is a symbol of the New Year. In Buddhism, it plays an important in the festival of Madhu Purnima, in which they celebrate the day in which Buddha make peace among his disciplines into the wilderness. In the Christian Bible, honey is referred to heaven as the “Land of Milk and Honey”. It was considered the food of gods in ancient times. In Islam, according to the prophet Muhammad it is recommended for healing purposes.
Later, honey was the basis for the production of an alcoholic beverage called mead, also known as honey wine or honey bear. Even Napoleon chose the honeybee for his crest. But nowadays, the main uses of honey are in cooking. We add it as spread on bread, as an addiction to tea and others beverages, and obviously to prepare some dishes to, especially desserts, as pudding. It is also used as a medicine to diabetic ulcers, acidity, conjunctivitis and ocular allergies, and also in cosmetics products,etc.But, the word honey has become a term of tenderness in most English-speaking world. In some places it is used for loved ones, and in others, it is used when addressing casual consciousness or even strangers. Honey appears in many children’s books. Bears, as Winnie the Pooh, are depicted as eating honey, although they eat a wide of foods. This term could be in relation with bears to children because both things, by the point of view of a child, are extremely sweet and it makes that children can associate both together.
By Esperanza Reyes
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