posted June 05, 2002 02:47 PM
Caileah, I dreamt I saw a word "BEESWAX" in front of me the other night. Dunno why so I checked over the internet. What I found about beeswax is interesting. 
Beeswax candles burn significantly longer than petroleum based paraffin candles; beeswax has the highest melting point of any known wax.
Beeswax candles provide a pure and clean burning candle producing no smoke.
Beeswax candles create a brighter flame than paraffin candles and produce a warm honey glow.
Beeswax candles smell sweetly of honey without the addition of any fragrance.
Studies have shown that the burning of beeswax stimulates the pituitary gland, increasing intuition, creativity, and heightening dream activity!
The spectrum of light emitted when burning a beeswax candle is identical to that of sunlight; a paraffin candle's flame is a chaotic light spectrum similar to an incandescent light bulb.
Beeswax was found in the ancient tombs of Egyptian kings where, remarkably, it still retained its pliability even after thousands of years.
The ancients thought the bees gathered beeswax from plants, and Aristotle recorded this as fact. He doubtless mistook pollen for beeswax, or perhaps he confused it with propolis, a resinous pitch that the bees do in fact gather from plants.
Beeswax uses have been recorded in all of mans past history. The Bible refers to it frequently.
Beeswax was compressed into molds and actually used in place of money for purchasing items.
Beeswax was used in the casting of metal statues and figures and is still used this way in some parts of the world. First, the object to be cast in metal is carved and sculpted in beeswax. Next, the wax is covered with wet clay that is baked and hardened, then the wax is melted away and the day serves as a metal mold.
The ancient Greek legend of the Athenian, Daedalus, is remembered because he and his son Icarus, on the island Crete, made themselves wings of bird feathers, which they fastened to their bodies with beeswax. Flying too high, Icarus had the wax which held its wings to his body, melted, and he plunged into the Aegean Sea, drowning. His father flew at a lower height and made it safely to Italy, where he built a temple to honor Apollo.
The ancient god, Pan, guardian of bees, invented a musical instrument, Pan's Pipes, by joining reeds together with beeswax, and blowing through them to make music.
The great Greek physician, Discorides, wrote of rolling beeswax into sheets which was then used to make artificial flowers.
The ancient Greeks and Romans made toy dolls of wax for children and used tablets of wax for writing.
In the fourth century, during Easter observances, a large column of wax resembling a candle, but lacking a wick, (phallus) was set up on the altar, and on it was inscribed the religious observances to come.
The ancient Greeks knew of the solubility of wax in fats and oils, and used this technique for painting on wax.
As far back as Roman times, beeswax was a major product in Europe, and taxes or tribute were commonly extracted in the form of beeswax. The records of huge quantities of wax indicate a higher level of beekeeping than is even present in modern times.
Some of the most lifelike paintings are the encaustic paintings, using hot beeswax, made by artists in Egypt about 1,600 to 2,000 years ago. The painters used an iron plate, heated from underneath with charcoal, which melted the beeswax and kept it liquid. Powdered pigments were mixed with the liquid wax, then applied to a canvas. The finished painting was subjected to the sun's heat and the whole painting was "burned in" or blended, thus the word encaustic.
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