"They are eager workers at their task of making honey, each with a specific task and dwelling assigned to him. They live in homes made with indescribable skill, and make honey using different blossoms. The fill castles made of wax with their innumerable offspring. They have an army and kings; they fight battles... Only the bees, among all creatures, have a shared offspring, a shared dwelling... shared toil, shared tasks, shared produce of their labour... They choose a king, create their own people, and although subject to a king are nonetheless free... But those bees who fail to obey the royal laws inflict their own punishment on themselves, and die by their own sting... so no race on Earth serves their king with such reverence and devotion as the bees, not even the Persians, who have the harshest laws for their kings subjects."
That seems the sort of belief that at least some Malkioni cultures might share, although one must generally be wary of drawing too many close parallels between Malkionism and Christianity, medieval or otherwise.
-- Trotsky Gamer and Skeptic ------------------------------------------------------ Trotsky's RPG website: http://www.ttrotsky.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Not a Dead Communist: http://jrevell.blogspot.com/
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