The Melissae were the bee priestesses of the temple of Demeter, in ancient Greece, responsible for the pollination of sex magic to initiate the kings and rulers.

Words vocals and cover art by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut

Lyrics:

I don’t know how you
Got through my guard dogs,
My electric fences,
My watchtowers
Sweeping the wastes
With their searchlights,
And my barbed wire
Minefields.

Maybe you tunnelled up 
From the Underworld.
Digging your way
Through The Wasteland
Of the long dead poets
With their yellowed scripts,
The sleeping Rulers
And dried up whores.
Through the bleak nights
Of sorrow.

How long were you down there,
Counting the rhymes
And the reasons,
Casting the Katha and
Catching the cadence
Of the old bards’ drums?
Juggling the genes, and
Scanning a measure,
The apis, the apex
The apogee of the helix,
Or a metre, a ladder
To bring you out
Into the Sun.

That would explain why
I didn’t see you until
It was too late.
I was sipping mead
With Ah Muzen Cab 
When you reared up, 
Hooded, at my lap.
“No mortal man has 
Ever Me unveiled,” I warned. 
“Sup from my jar,
And you die.”
With barely a beat 
You lifted my veil
And took what was yours.

© Copyright Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, Samhain 2023

Music: Meditative Oud 112719 by Daniel Yan on Pixabay 

Further information:
"Bee shamanism may be one of the oldest human religions. The bee, as a shamanic totem, is incredibly ancient. Bringers of honey, the bee's spiritual meaning is beneficence, co-operation and bounty. An essentially matriarchal society, a colony of bees consists of around 50k female bees at the height of summer, with around 500 drones and one single egg layer in the darkness, the Queen. 

"Tantalisingly, a Queen Bee knows how to make the sperm meet her eggs, and some of the most prominent of the Melissae rituals involve fertility enhancing and diminishing meditations and herbs.

"Could it be that these women deliberately grew and strengthened the polis (city-state) studying bees?  Were their actions pro-polis designed to protect them against invasion? (Bees make propolis from wax and tree resins to insulate and inoculate the hive) And when they were left behind when men went off to fight, were they empowered by their ability to sting?" 

Extract from Meeting the Melissae: The Ancient Greek Priestesses of the Goddess Demeter, with kind permission from its author Elizabeth Ashley. Get the book here: https://tinyurl.com/2s3myfeh

The Song of the Melissae Bee Priestess

Always

“INGANNEVOLE” è il primo album di Olimpia Simone. Ingannevole, è il frutto di quasi due anni di lavorazione con il coinvolgimento di molti dei musicisti con cui Olimpia ha collaborato nella sua carriera finora. Arriva dopo molti singoli e rappresenta un viaggio musicale che riflette la sua personalità, artisticamente e musicalmente. Prevalentemente jazz, include sfumature di pop e cantautorato, oltre a brani intimi solo piano e voce. Tra i musicisti: Mario Rosini al piano (che ha scritto molti degli inediti), Paolo Romano al basso, Mimmo Campanale alla batteria, Guido Di Leone alla chitarra jazz, Bruno Montrone al piano, Gianni Binetti al sax, Maurizio Lampugnani alle percussioni. Nei featuring spiccano nomi come Fabrizio Bosso alla tromba, Giovanni Astorino al violoncello, Giuseppe Milici all'armonica, Gianni Rotondo, e Savio Vurchio. Questi sono solo alcuni dei tantissimi musicisti coinvolti in questo progetto. Comprende cover di brani e interpretazioni significative della sua carriera, come canzoni di Sergio Cammariere, Vasame di Gragnaniello, Samba della Rosa di Toquinho, e Mi sono innamorato di te di Luigi Tenco.
L’album, oltre ad essere presente su tutti i maggiori portali di streaming come Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music e Bandcamp, è disponibile sia in CD che in Vinile sullo store on-line https://bit.ly/STRJAZZ

Ingannevole

Io so che ti amerò

Ascolta | Scarica

[Jazz, Piano] Olimpia Simone • Io so che ti amerò [Soul Treasure Jazz™]

Story of a transformation… - 
Cover illustration: Alain de Maximy

Vol de nuit

I was empty before I knew your name
A ghost in the crowd, a flicker, a flame
You walked in like the night took shape
Breath like thunder, hands like fate

And the air got thick, and the world leaned in
Something in your eyes pulled me under my skin
No words, no touch, but I swore I knew
Something in me was starving for you

Oh, hunger, hunger-deep in my bones
A whisper, a shiver, a place I call home
No mercy, no warning, no way to pretend
I was starving before, and I’ll starve till the end

Your voice runs through me like a half-lit prayer
Every syllable laced with the weight of the air
I reach, I retreat, but I never let go
You are the question I’ll never outgrow

And the room stands still, and the night leans close
Something in the dark knows what I know
No words, no touch, but the fire still grew
Something in me was burning for you

Oh, hunger, hunger-deep in my bones
A whisper, a shiver, a place I call home
No mercy, no warning, no way to pretend
I was starving before, and I’ll starve till the end

Oh, I could run, I could hide
Turn my back on the pull, on the tide
But some things, they don't fade
Some ghosts, they don’t behave
And hunger, hunger-it never forgave

Hunger, hunger-deep in my bones
A whisper, a shiver, a place I call home
No mercy, no warning, no way to pretend
I was starving before, and I’ll starve till the end

I was empty before I knew your name...
Still starving now... still starving now...

Hunger, Hunger

For The Sake of Love (feat. Khristine L)

We’re back in time
Rebuilding the kingdom
De-freaking the sanctum, baby!

A loop is fine (a loop divine)
Can’t un-fool a fool
The Gullivers rule the sea

When you roll over you
Will you stand with me
And we can bring back now

It’s a long long winter
But the seagulls won’t be crying defeat
Don’t trade your bangs for a whimper
A sturdy sail is never obsolete

Well I guess all of this earth was not enough for us
We wore our hardest hats and ground it back to dust
Our final score was high, we took it all with us
There were some lovely moments in between
We made love between wars and art between lies

Chorus: repeated

And when you roll over you
Will you stand with me
So we can take back now

We’re dumbing down
To fit the zeitgeist
The memers won
The Kraken’s free

No-one can save us
We’re the sirens
Just singing to our rock
Too scared to put to sea

Buncha redwoods going it alone
Who’s it gonna be, 
Who’s it gonna be
When the axe done fall?
It’s unimaginable
We were asked to be nicer
By some woman I saw
Kicking the Kaiser
Who promised us a wall
(Wall off our rock from sailors)

We're back in time

Chorus: repeated

When you roll over you
Will you sail with me
And we can journey back to now

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Till Love took its toll (Devil in Disguise)

Revival (feat. Khristine L)

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“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty."
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste

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