 Honey, according to a Greek myth, was discovered by a nymph called Melissa ("Bee"); and honey was offered to the Greek gods from Mycenean times.Bees were associated, too, with the Delphic oracle and the prophetess was sometimes called a bee.Thyrsus

A thyrsus or thyrsos () was a wand or staff of giant fennel ("Ferula communis") covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with taeniae and topped with a pine cone or by a bunch of vine-leaves and grapes or ivy-leaves and berries.