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after; nor is there any room for death; but that they 

 mount up alive each into his proper order of star, and take 

 their seat in the high heaven." 



Some have interpreted the resurrection of Glaukos in the 

 legend as due to his having been buried in honey. 



Glaukos, a son of the Cretan king Minos, while playing 

 with a mouse, the symbol of death, once fell into a cask of 

 honey. Minos long sought his unfortunate child, but in 

 vain until he appealed to the oracle, who informed him that 

 he who was best able to draw a comparison from a three- 

 colored cow in Minos's herd would restore his son. 

 Minos therefore appealed to the seer Polyidos, from the 

 family of the renowned soothsayer Melampus. Polyidos 

 likened the colors of the cow to the fruit of the bramble, 

 which is green, red, and black during the various stages of 

 its ripening. Upon this Glaukos was discovered — but he 

 was dead. Minos now demanded that he should be re- 

 stored to life, and shut up the seer in a vault with the body. 

 Presently a snake crawled towards Glaukos, and Polyidos 

 killed it. Then came another snake, bearing an herb, with 

 which it covered the dead snake, which at once came to 

 life again. Polyidos laid the same herb upon the body of 

 Glaukos and he stood up from his bier. 



Democritus promised resurrection of the body if it was 

 preserved in honey. 



The power possessed by honey of preserving organic 

 bodies immersed in it was well known to the ancients, and 

 no doubt this was the origin of many of the superstitions 

 regarding the miraculous powers ascribed to it. We know 

 that even human bodies can be and doubtless have been 

 preserved in honey and that the Greeks sometimes used it 

 for this purpose, as Plutarch tells us of the body of Agesi- 

 laus, and as Josephus also relates concerning the body of 

 Aristobulus. This general, having been freed from his ene- 



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